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The 

Anti  -  Prohibition 

Manual 


A  Summary  of  Facts  and 

Figures  Dealing   With 

Prohibition 


1917 


_>iATIONAL 

whosesat:!  liquor  dealers 
association  of  america 

301  UNITED  BANK  BUILDING 
CINCINNATI,  OHIO 


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Are  You  Directly  or  Indirectly  O 
Interested  in  the  Liquor  Business  • 


NATIONAL  PROHIBITION  would  mean 
the  loss  of  $262,000,000  revenue  to  the  Treas- 
ury of  our  National  Government. 

NATIONAL  PROHIBITION  would  mean 
the  loss  of  $21,000,000  revenue  to  the  various 
States  of  the  Union. 

NATIONAL  PROHIBITION  would  mean 
the  loss  of  $6,600,000  revenue  to  the  various 
Counties  of  the  United  States. 

NATIONAL  PROHIBITION  would  mean 
the  loss  of  $52,000,000  revenue  to  the  Munici- 
palities of  the  United  States.  Most  of  our 
American  municipalities  are  bonded  to  the 
limit;  our  cities  cannot  bear  the  burden  of  ad- 
ditional taxes. 

WHO  will  make  up  this  revenue  lost 
through  NATIONAL  PROHIBITION? 


WHAT  PART  WILL  YOU  O 
HAVE  TO  PAY  i 


INTRODUCTION, 


HIS     is     the     Third     Anti-Prohibition 
Manual.      Its    predecessor    was    pub- 
lished   for    the    year     1916,    and    two 
hundred   and   fifty   thousand    (250,000) 
copies  were  distributed  throughout  the  United 
States. 

The  success  of  the  1916  Manual  has  led  us  to 
issue  a  new,  up-to-date  edition.  We  wish  to 
thank  those  who  have  said  kind  things  and  who 
have  "boosted"  our  original  effort.  We  hope 
to  continue  in  "this  edition  to  deserve  your 
good  will. 

These  pages  were  compiled  with  but  one 
purpose  in  view. 

They  are  intended  to  furnish  a  quick  and 
easy  means  of  answering  arguments  offered  in 
support  of  Prohibition. 

Within  these  pages  may  be  found  the  an- 
swer to  practically  every  argument  presented 
to  date  by  the  Anti-Saloon  League  or  other 
Prohibition  forces. 

An  effort  has  been  made  to  compile  the  facts 
contained,  in  a  concise,  clear  and  brief  man- 
ner. This  book  should  be  the  constant  com- 
panion of  the  members  of  the  trade,  their  em- 
ployees, and  their  friends.  The  statements 
contained  are  authentic  and  should  be  of  value 
and  interest  to  students  as  well  as  the  average 
reader. 

Education  has  solved  many  questions,  but 
one  must  know  before  he  can  transmit  knowl- 
edge. 

Take  this  little  book;  read  it;  become  familiar 
with  its  contents  and— USE  IT. 

EDITOR. 


97102 


THE     FOLLOV/ING     STATES     REJECTED 

STATE-WIDE   PROHIBITION    ON   A 

POPULAR   VOTE. 

Election  Votes  for       Votes  Against        Majority 

Stales  Date  Protiibition       Proliibition  Against 

Arkansas Sept.    9,1912  69,390  85,358  15,968 

California Nov.    3,  1914  355,536  524,781  169,245 

California Nov.    7,1916  436,639  538,200  101,561 

Maryland Nov.    7,1916  60,420  114,674  54,254 

Missouri '.Nov.    8,1910  207,281  425,406  218,125 

Missouri Nov.    7,1916  294,288  416,826  122,538 

Ohio Nov.    3,1914  504,177  588,329  84,152 

Ohio Nov.    2,  1915  484,965  540,377  55,413 

Pennsylvania. .Tunc  18,  1889  296,617  484,644  188,027 

Texas July  22,  1911  231,096  237,393  6,297 

Vermont Mar.    7,1916  18,503  31,667  13,164 

THE  FOLLOWING  FIFTEEN  STATES  TRIED 

PROHIBITION,   BUT   LATER   RETURNED 

TO    LICENSE    AND    REGULATION. 

Table  Gives   Dates   When   Prohibition   Law   Was 

Adopted  and  Repealed. 
Alabama— 1907-1911. 
Connecticut— 1854-1872.     » 
Delaware— 1855-1857. 

Illinois— 1855  (repealed  the  same  year). 
Indiana — 1855  (soon  abandoned). 
Iowa— 1SS4   (abandoned  in  a  few  years). 
Massachusetts— 1S55-1870. 
Michigan— 1S5:'.-1876. 
Nebraska— 1855-1861. 
New  Hampshire — 1855-1889.  . 
New  York— 1855-1857.  -j 
Ohio  —  isr)5    (repealed   the   same  year.)^ 
Rhode  Island— 1853-1863;  also,  1886-1889.    ' 
South  Dakota— 1889-1895. 
Vermont— 1852-1903.    v 


DRINK  "WINE  OF  CARDUI." 

EVIDENCE  presented  before  Federal  Jud>;c 
Carpenter,  of  Chicago,  in  the  case  of  John  A. 
I'attcn,  prominent  Prohibitionist  and  manufacturer 
of  Wine  of  Cardui  at  Chattanoopa,  and  tiic  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association,  revealed  that  Patten's  so- 
called  "Wine"  contains  20%  alcohol,  and  was  used 
for  beverage  purposes  in  "dry  "  territory. 

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THE  FOLLOWING  STATES  TRIED  AND  RE- 
PUDIATED PROHIBITION  AND  THEN 
REJECTED  LATER  PROPOSALS. 

Table  Gives  Dates  When  Prohibition  Law  Was 
Adopted  and  Rejected. 

Connecticut — 1854-1872;  1889,  rejected  second  pro- 
posal. 

Indiana — 1855,  soon  repealed;  1883,  rejected  second 
proposal. 

Ohio — 1855-1855;  November  3,  1914,  rejected 
second  proposal;  November  3,  1915,  again  defeated 
prohibition. 

Massachusetts — 1855-1870;  1889,  rejected  second 
proposal. 

Rhode  Island— 1853-1863— 1886-1889. 

Vermont — 1852-1903;  1916,  rejected  second  pro- 
posal. 


Alcoholic  bev- 
erages   form     a 
part  of  the  reg- 
ular    rations 
served  to  the 
German  soldiers 
in   the  Western 
war  zone. 

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ARRESTS   FOR   DRUNKENNESS   INCREASES 

DURING  ANTI-SALOON  LEAGUE 

CONVENTION. 

T  H.  LARIMORE,  Mayor  of  Westerville,  C, 
*^  •  made  an  official  call  this  morning  on  Mayor 
William  Riddle,  of  Atlantic   City. 

"Our  arrests  for  drunkenness  have  increased  since 
Aour  convention  came  to  town,"  said. Mayor  Riddle. 

"Is  that  so?"   said   Mayor  Larimore. 

"Yes.  You  know  when  you  start  in  to  tell  a  man 
that  he  mustn't  do  a  certain  thing,  and  keep  on 
telling  him,  he  wants  to  go  out  and  do  that  very 
thing." 

Then  the  Mayors  talked  woman  suffrage. — New 
York  World. 

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FORMER  PRESIDENT  TAFT  ON 
TEMPERANCE. 

pvECLARING  himself  in  favor  of  temperance, 
^^  former  President  Taft,  through  the  columns  of 
the  Los  Angeles  Times,  strikes  a  blow  at  the  intem- 
perance of  prohibition. 

His  remarks  on  this  question  are  as  follows: 

"I  believe  in  temperance,  and  what  I  want  to 
avoid  is  that  the  men  who  do  not  believe  in  tem- 
perance and  the  men  who  are  moderate  in  their 
views  of  everything  should  not  be  ground  be- 
tween the  top  and  the  nether  millstone  of  the 
extremes  on  both  sides  of  that  question;  that 
the  intolerance,  that  the  tyranny,  political  and 
otherwise,  of  the  saloon-keeper,  the  brewer, 
distiller  influence,  the  liquor  dealers'  influence, 
should  not  rouse  the  community  to  a  point  of 
indignation  where  we  should  have  the  extremes 
of  a  community  roused  and  insisting  on  adopt- 
ing the  passage  of  laws  and  the  attempted  en- 
forcement of  laws  that  could  not  in  fact  be  en- 
forced, and  then  leave  us  in  a  demoralized  con- 
dition where  everybody  knows  that  everybody 
feels  that  the  laws  are  not  being  enforced. 

Opposed  to  Extremes. 

"Therefore,  I  am  opposed  to  either  saloon- 
keeper rule  or  to  the  extreme  of  prohibition. 

"Now,  let's  have  a  system  of  local  option 
where  in  a  community  they  will  support  the 
enforcement  of  law. 

"Let  us  deal  with  the  matter  in  a  common 
sense  way:  Let  us  deal  with  human  nature  as 
it  is.  Understand  what  the  conditions  are  and 
then  adopt  the  laws  to  ameliorate  them.  Do 
not  put  a  lot  of  laws  on  our  statute  books  that 
we  know  in  our  hearts  we  can't  enforce — just 
an  attempt  to  fool  the  people. 

"It  is  true  that  it  is  pretty  hard  to  steer  a 
medium  line.  It  is  pretty  hard  to  recognize 
abuse  and  attempt  to  restrain  on  the  one  hand, 
and  on  the  other  to  use  some  remedy  that  is 
impossible  and  an  extreme,  and  to  attempt  to 
enforce  the  same." 


THE  PROHIBITION  MOVEMENT  IN  THE 
UNITED  STATES. 

1808 — First     total     abstinence     society     founded     in 

America  by  William  Clark. 
1813 — Society  for  Suppression   of   Intemperance   or- 
ganized in   Maine. 
1826 — Society  for  Promotion  of  Temperance  founded. 
1851 — Maine  adopted   Prohibition  law — first  state  to 

do  this. 
1852 — Vermont  follows  Maine. 

1853 — Rhode  Island  and  Michigan  adopt  Prohibition. 
1854 — Connecticut  adopts  Prohibition. 
1855 — New    Hampshire,    Massachusetts,    New    York, 

Delaware,    Indiana,    Nebraska,    Ohio   and    Illi- 
nois adopt  Prohibition. 

Illinois,  Indiana  and  Ohio  repealed  the  law  in 

the  same  year. 

Wisconsin  refused  a  Prohibition  law. 
1857 — New    York    and  Delaware  repeal  Prohibition  law. 
1861 — Nebraska  repealed  the  Prohibition  law. 
1863 — Rhode  Island  repudiated  the   Prohibition  law. 
1860 — National  I'rohibition   Party  organized. 
1870 — Massachusetts  repudiated  the  Prohibition  law. 
1872 — Connecticut  repealed  the  law, 
1876 — Michigan   repeals   Prohibition. 

First  effort  made  for  Federal  Prohibition  Law. 
1880 — Kansas  goes  "dry"  by  7,998  majority. 
1882— Indiana  defeats  efforts  to  impose  Prohibition. 
1S84 — Iowa  adopted  Prohibition  and  abandoned  it  in 

a  few  years. 
1886 — Rhode  Island  again  tries   Prohibition. 
1887 — Michigan  refuses  Prohibition  the  second  time. 

Texas  refuses  a  Prohibition  law. 
1889 — New  Hampshire  and  Rhode  Island  repeal  their 

Prohibition   laws. 

Connecticut,    Pennsylvania  and   Massachusetts 

defeat  efforts  to  impose  Prohibition  laws. 

South   Dakota  adopts  Prohibition. 

North    Dakota    adopted    Prohibition    by    1,159 

majority. 
1890 — Nebraska     defeats     Prohibition     proposal     by 

29,436  majority. 
1893 — Anti-Saloon   League  founded  in  Ohio. 
1895 — South    Dakota    repeals    Prohibition    by    6,991 

majority. 
1903 — \'crmont   returns   to   license. 
1907 — Oklahoma  adopts    Prohibition. 

Georgia  "dry"   by  act   of   Legislature. 

Alabama  "dry"  by  act  of  Legislature. 

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1908 — North  Carolina  adopts  Prohibition.     -' 
Mississippi  "dry"  by  act  of  Legislature. 

1909 — Tennesee  "dry"  by  act  of  Legislature. 

1910 — Missouri  defeats  Prohibition  proposal. 

Florida  defeats  Prohibition  by  4,600  majority. 
Oregon  defeats  Prohibition  by  20,000  majority. 

1911 — Maine  retains  Prohibition  by  bare  majority  of 
758  votes. 

Texas  defeats  Prohibition  by  6,297  majority. 
Alabama  repeals  the  Prohibition  law. 

1912 — Arkansas    refuses    Prohibition    by    15,968    ma- 
jority. 

1914 — Arizona,  Colorado,  Washington,  Oregon,  West 
Virginia  and  Virginia  adopt  Prohibition. 
Ohio,  Texas  and  California  defeat  Prohibition 
proposals. 

The  Hobson  Resolution  for  National  Prohibi- 
tion defeated  in  Congress. 

1915 — Alabarna,  Idaho  and  Iowa  adopt  State-Wide 
Prohibition  laws  by  legislative  enactment.  ^ 
The  Legislatures  of  New  Hampshire,  Wyo- 
ming, Minnesota,  Florida  and  Michigan  de- 
feated State-Wide  Prohibition  bills. 
South  Carolina  adopted  State-Wide  Prohibi- 
tion. 

Ohio  again  defeats   Prohibition  by  large   ma- 
jority. 

1916 — Montana,  South  Dakota,  Nebraska  and  Michi- 
gan adopt  Prohibition. 

Vermont,    California,    Maryland   and    Missouri 
defeat  Prohibition  by  large  majorities. 


PROHIBITION    AND    POLYGAMY. 

CENATOR  KNUTE  NELSON  dropped  a  sug- 
*^  gestion  into  the  Senate  debate  on  the  Philippines 
bill  which  ought  to  have  called  for  immediate  reply, 
but  it  did  not.  The  Minnesota  Senator  is  reported 
in  the  Record  as  saying:  "It  is  evident  from  this 
discussion  that  as  to  the  Mohammedans  of  the  Phil- 
ippine Islands  .  .  .  they  are  quite  content  to  be 
prohibitionists,  provided  that  they  can  be  polygam- 
ists.  The  two  go  hand  in  hand."  That  is  a  serious 
reflection  upon  the  great  moral  question  of  pro- 
hibition, but  neither  the  venerable  Senator  Gallinger 
nor  the  youthful  Senator  Sheppard  entered  the  lists 
to  repudiate  it  by  historic  text  or  elaborate  statistics. 
The  statement  that  prohibition  and  polygamy  go 
hand  in  hand  stands  in  the  Record  without  contra- 
dictions.— Washington  (D.  C.)  Herald. 
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LINES    OF    INDUSTRY    AFFECTED 
PROHIBITION. 


BY 


Beer  Pump  Mfrs. 

Bottle  Cap  Alfrs. 

Bottle  Machinery  Mfrs. 

Bottle  Makers. 

Box  Makers. 

Brass  Workers. 

Brewers. 

Bread  Alakers. 

Butchers. 

Carpenters. 

Cask  Mfrs. 

Charcoal  Mfrs. 

Coal  Dealers. 

Coal  Aliners. 

Commercial  Agencies. 

Coopers. 

Coppersmiths. 

Cork  Cutters. 

Cork  Dealers. 

Cigar  Dealers. 

Cigar  Mfrs. 

Cracker  Bakers. 

Delicatessen  Dealers. 

Disinfectant  Mfrs.  and 

Dealers. 
Distillers. 
Engine  Builders. 
Farmers. 
Filter  Mfrs. 
Fixture  Mfrs. 
P'oundries. 
Glassware  Dealers. 
Crlasswarc  Mfrs. 
Cirain  Dealers, 
(irain  Elevators, 
(irape  Growers. 
Hardware  Dealers. 
Hardware  Mfrs. 
Harness  Makers. 
Plorse  Dealers.  


Horscshoers. 

Ice  Machine  Mfrs, 

Ice  Dealers. 

Ice  Mfrs. 

Iron  Hoop  Alfrs. 

Lithographers. 

Liquor  Dealers. 

Maltsters. 

Meat   Dealers. 

Motor  Truck  Mfrs. 

Motor  Truck  Dealers. 

Musical   Instruments. 

Nail  Mfrs.  and  Dealers. 

Oil  Refiners  and  Dealers. 

Paint  Alfrs.  and  Dealers. 

Painters. 


and 


Paper  Mfrs. 
Pipe  Fitters 
IMumbers. 
I'ipe  Mfrs. 
Potters. 
Pump   Mfrs. 
Pretzel   Makers. 
Printers. 

Printers'   Ink   Mfrs. 
Railroads. 
Real  Estate. 
Refrigerator  Mfrs. 
Seal  Mfrs. 
Sign   Mfrs. 
Stationers. 
Talking  Machines 
Tank  Builders. 
Teamsters, 
relephonc. 
Tobacco  Growers. 
Tobacco  Dealers. 
Wagon    Makers. 
Wine  Makers. 


etc 


LICENSE,  REGULATION  AND  CONTROL. 
"\X7E    believe    that    experience    teaches,    and    liis- 

'  '^  tory  proves  that  license,  regulation  and  con- 
trol offer  the  only  real  solution  of  the  so-called 
liquor  problem." — From  the  call  of  the  twenty-tirst 
annual  cotivention  of  the  National  Wholesale  Liquor 
Dealers  Association. 

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LIQUOR  AT  WASHINGTON  FEAST. 

NOT  only  was  George  Washington,  the  "Father 
of  his  Country,"  a  distiller,  but  he  also  indulged 
in  liquors.     The  New  York  Times  says: 

The  Controller's  office  can  give  the  minute  details 
of  what  the  state  paid  for  wines  and  liquors  to  en- 
tertain George  Washington  and  his  party  when  they 
were,  in  December,  1783,  the  guests  of  the  state  of 
Xcw  York  with  Governor  George  Clinton  as  host. 

It  cost  just  il56  10s.  to  entertain  General  Wash- 
ington and  his  party,  among  whom  were  the  French 
Minister  and  other  celebrites.  But  of  the  fl56  10s. 
only  i48  was  for  food.  More  than  /SO  went  for 
liquid  refreshment.  Among  the  expenditures  for  the 
dinner  was  an  item  which  may  or  may  not  have  had 
a  counterpart  on  the  Whitman  trip,  of  £3  for  "60 
wine  glasses  broken." 

This  bill  is  as  follows: 

The   State   of   New  York  to  John   Cape,   Dr. 

To  a  Dinner  given  by  His  excellency,  the  Governor 
and    Council    to    their    excellencies    the    Minister    of 
France  and  General  Washington,  etc. 
1783 

Dec— To  120  dinners  at £48     0     0 

To  135  bottles  Madeira 54     0     0 

To  36  Ditto  Port 10  16     0 

To  60  Ditto  English  beer..        9     0     0 

To  30  bowls   punch 0     0     0 

To  8  dinners  for  Musick.  .  .        1  13     0 
To  10  Ditto  for  servants.  .  .        3     0     0 

To  30  bowls  of  punch 13  10     0 

To  60  wine  glasses  broken.        3     0     0 
To  coffee  for  8  gentlemen.        1  13     0 

Musick  fees,   etc 8     0     0 

To   fruit   and   nuts 5     0     0 

By  Cash £156  10     0 

We,  a  Committee  of  Council,  having  examined  the 
above  account,  do  certify  it  (amounting  to  one  hun- 
dred fifty-six  pounds  ten  shilling)  to  be  correct. 

Isaac  Roosevelt, 
Jas.  Duane, 
Egbt.  Benson. 
Fed.  Jay. 
Received   the  above  contents  in  full. 

New   York,   Dec.    17,    1783. 
John    Cape. 
It  Is  not  of  record  that  the  state  paid  the  traveling 
expenses  of  its  guests. 

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PATENT  MEDICINES  SELL  WELL  IN  "DRY" 
TERRITORY— TONICS   AND   BITTERS. 

(From  report  of  Massachusetts  State  Board  of 
Health,   1902.) 

The  following  were  examined  for  the  purpose 
of  ascertaining  the  percentage  of  alcohol  in  each. 
Some  of  them  have  been  recommended  as  temper- 
ance drinks: 

Per  Cent  of 
Alcohol  (by 
volume) 

"Best"  Tonic  7.6 

Carter's    Physical    Extract 22.0 

Hooker's  Wigwam  Tonic 20.7 

Hoofland's   German  Tonic 29.3 

Hop  Tonic 7.0 

Howe's  Arabian  Tonic,  "not  a  rum  drink" 13.2 

Jackson's  Golden   Seal  Tonir 19.6 

Licbig  Company's  Cocoa  Beef  Tonic 23.3 

Mcnsman's  Peptonized  Beef  Tonic 16.5 

Parker's  Tonic,  "purely  vegetable,"  recommended 

for  inebriates    41.6 

Schenk's  Sea  Weed  Tonic,  "entirely  harmless".  .19.5 

Atwood's  Quinine  Tonic  Bitters 29.2 

L.  T.  Atwood's  Jaundice  Bitters 22.3 

Moses  Atwood's  Jaundice  Bitters 17.1 

Baxter's  Mandrake  Bitters 16.5 

Bokcr's  Stomach  Bitters 42.6 

Brown's  Iron  Bitters 19.7 

Burdock  Blood  Bitters 2r..2 

Carter's  Scotch  Bitters 17.6 

Colton's  Bitters .27.1 

Coop's  White  Mountain  Bitters,  "not  an  alcoholic 

beverage"    6.0 

T:)rake's  Plantation  Bitters 33.2 

Flint's  Quaker  Bitters 21.4 

Goodhue's   Bitters    H>.1 

Greene's  Nervura   17.2 

Hartshorn's    Bitters 22.2 

Hooflandcr's     Cicrman     Bitters,     "entirely     vege- 
table and  free  from  alcoholic  stimulant".  ..  .25.6 

Hop  Bitters   12.0 

[lostctter's  Stomach  Bitters .44.3 

Kaufman's  Sulphur  Bitters-,  "contains  no  alcohol" 
(as  a  matter  of  fact,  it  contains  20.5  per  cent 

of  alcohol  and  no  sulphur) 20.5 

u 


Per  Cent  Alcohol 

Kingsley's  Iron  Tonic 14.9 

Langley's  Bitters   18.1 

Liverpool's  Mexican  Tonic  Bitters 22.4 

Paine's   Celery  Compound 21.4 

Pierce's  Indian  Restorative   Bitters 6.1 

Puritana    22.0 

Z.  Porter's  Stomach   Bitters 27.9 

Pulmonine    16.0 

Rush's  Bitters   35.0 

Richardson's  Concentrated  Sherry  Wine  Bitters. 47.5 

Secor's  Conshona  Bitters 13.1 

Shonyo's  German  Bitters 21.5 

Job  Sweet's  Strengthening  Bitters 29.0 

Thurston's    Old    Continental    Bitters 11.4 

Warner's  Vinegar  Bitters,  "contains  no  spirit"..    6.1 

Warner's  Safe  Tonic  Bitters 35.7 

Warren's   Bilious    Bitters 21.5 

Wheeler's  Tonic   Sherry  Wine  Bitters 18.8 

Wheat  Bitters  13.6 

Faith  Whitcomb's   Nerve   Bitters 20.3 

Dr.  William's  Vegetable  Jaundice  Bitters 18.5 

Whiskol,  "a  non-intoxicating  stimulant,  whiskey 

without   it's    sting" 28.2 

Golden    Liquid    Beef    Tonic,    "recommended    for 

treatment  of  alcoholic  habit" 26.5 

Ayer's  Sarsaparilla    26.2 

Thayer's  Compound   Extract  of  Sarsaparilla.  ..  .21.5 

Hood's  Sarsaparilla 18.8 

Allen's  Sarsaparilla  13.5 

Dana's  Sarsaparilla   13.5 

Brown's    Sarsaparilla    13.5 

Corbett's  Shaker  Sarsaparilla 8.8 

Radway's  Resolvent   7.9 

"The   dose   recommended   upon   the   labels   of   the 

foregoing    preparations    varied    from    a    teaspoonful 

to   a  wineglass   full,    and   the   frequency   also   varied 

from  one  to  four  times  a  day,  'increased  as  needed.' 

"Also  the  following  medicines  for  alcohol": 

Hoflf's  Extract  of  Malt  and  Iron 5.24 

Peruna 28.59 

Vinol,  Wine  of  Cod  Liver  Oil 18.88 

Lydia  Pinkham's  Vegetable   Compound 20.61 

Dr.  Killmer's  Swamp  Root 7.32 

Dr.  Peter's  Kuriko   14.00 

These   are    the    favorite    substitutes    in    *'dry" 
territory. 

How  do   they   compare   with   beer,  wine   and 
whiskey? 

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A   Prohibition    Catechism 


4^9— •■——«- 


ta 


HAT  is  Prohibition? 

An  attempt  to  remedy  the  evils  re- 
sulting   from    the     excessive    use    of 
alcoholic  beverages  by  laws  prohibit- 
ing their  sale  or  manufacture  for  sale.  I 

Is  excessive  drinking  of  Intoxicating  liquors    | 
injurious?  '  | 

Undoubtedly.  So  is  excess  in  eating,  in 
exercise,  in  work,  and  in  many  other  things 
not  harmful  in  themselves. 

What  is  tlic  primary  cause  of  drinking  to 
excess? 

Weakness  of  will,  or  lack  of  moral  character, 
which  makes  it  impossible  for  some  people  to 
control  their  desire  for  the  stimulation  induced 
by  intoxicants. 

Wliat  percentage  of  the  adult  population  of 
tlic  United  States  uses  sonic  form  of  alcoliolic 
beverage? 

From  the  best  information  obtainable  it  is 
estimated  that  80  per  cent  are  occasional  or 
moderate  drinkers. 

What  proportion  of  this  80  per  cent  drink 
to  excess? 

About  5  per  cent. 

Why  sliould  the  05  per  cent  of  moderate  or 
occasional  drinkers  be  deprived  of  their  bever- 
ages, because  5  per  cent  are  lacking  in  self 
control? 

No  good  reason  has  ever  been  given  by  the 
Prohibitionists. 

How  long  has  the  prohibition  plan  been 
tested  in  this  country? 

For  more  than  50  years. 

lias  it  materially  diminislicd  the  use  of  liquor 
in  prohibition  areas: 

No.  The  experience  of  such  states  as  Maine 
and  Kansas,  where  prohibitory  laws  have  been 
in  force  for  many  years,  shows  that  the  con- 
sumption of  intoxicants  is  practically  the  same 
as  is  in  non-prohibition  states. 


+ 


m. 


HAT  has  been  the  net  result  of  prohi- 
bition in  the  states  that  have  tried  it? 


The  people  who  desire  liquors  either  j 

import  them  from  othei;;  states,  or  use  liquors  = 

illegally  produced  or  sold.     This  has  promoted  i 

an  illicit  traffic  in  intoxicants,  and  has  created  j 

a  general  disrespect  for  the  law.  f 

Would  it  be  possible  for  the  governments  of  | 

all  the  states,  or  of  the  United  States,  to  pre-  f 

vent  the  manufacture  of  intoxicating  liquors?  ' 


Absolutely  impossible.     An  army  of  1,000,000  f 

men  could  not  prevent  the  growers  of  apples  or  s 

grapes  from  allowing  cider  or  wine  to  ferment  I 

and  become  alcoholic.  f 

Is  it  the  sale,  or  the  use,  of  intoxicants  that     I 
causes  the  Injurious  results  arising  from  drink- 
ing to  excess? 

The  use,  unquestionably. 

Do  prohibition  laws  provide  for  punishing 
the  users  of  liquors? 

No.  Penalties  are  imposed  only  on  manu- 
facturers or  sellers. 

Why  do  not  the  prohibitionists  try  to  punish 
those  who  drink  liquor,  as  well  as  those  who 
sell  it? 

Because  they  know  that  laws  for  that  pur- 
pose would  not  and  could  not  be  enforced. 

Since  prohibition  does  not,  and  cannot,  pre- 
vent the  use  of  intoxicating  liquors  by  those 
desiring  them,  why  is  it  maintained  by  the 
various  states  that  have  adopted  it? 

Chiefly  because  of  the  hypocrisy  of  its  ad- 
vocates, who  are  unwilling  to  admit  that  their 
scheme  for  regulating  the  personal  tastes  and 
habits  of  their  fellow  citizens  will  not  work. 


WHY    PRINCETON    UNIVERSITY    REFUSED 

TO    INVITE    BILLY    SUNDAY   TO   THAT 

INSTITUTION. 

In  view  of  the  present  activities  of  Billy  Sunday-, 
in  behalf  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League,  the  following 
statement  by  Andrew  F.  West,  Dean  of  the  Gradu- 
ate School  of  Princeton  University,  showing  why 
Sunday  \vas  not  invited  to  that  great  center  of 
learning,  is  sure  to  be  profitably  interesting  at  this 
time. 

This  reply  of  Dean  West,  to  certain  attacks  in 
religious  papers,  is  reprinted  from  the  New  York 
Times  of  April  8,  1915,  and  is  as  follows: 

Princeton,    April    6,    1915. 
To  the  Editor  of  the  New  York  Times: 

Princeton  University  is  being  attacked  in  certain 
religious  papers  for  not  inviting  Mr.  Sunday  to  ad- 
dress our  students.  As  a  member  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  and  a  teacher  in  Princeton  University 
for  over  thirty  years,  may  I  ask,  in  view  of  recently 
l)ublished  criticisms,  that  you  will  print  this  state- 
ment, giving  some  of  the  reasons  why  Mr.  Sunday 
was  not  invited  to  hold  his  meetings  here  under  the 
auspices  and  with  the  indorsement  of  the  univer- 
sity? 

Let  me  say  emphatically  that  it  was  not  because 
Mr.  Sunday's  teachings  are  evangelical.  Far  from 
it.  Princeton  was  founded  and  has  lived  on  the 
fundamental  historical,  evangelical  Christian  faith, 
and,  with  few  exceptions,  no  other  gospel  has  been 
heard  here.  The  attitude  of  President  Hibben  and 
the  authorities  is  in  accord  with  this,  no  matter 
what  passing  difficulties  may  arise. 

Nevertheless,  there  arc  grave  reasons  why  Prince- 
ton University  should  not  favor  Mr.  Sunday's 
methods  as  likely  to  do  good  to  our  students.  He 
has  been  free  to  come,  as  he  did,  and  our  students 
have  been  entirely  free  to  hear  him,  as  they  did  in 
large  numbers — but  not  on  invitation  nor  with  the 
eticouragemcnt  of  the  authorities  of  the  University. 
Why  not?  Let  me  state  some  of  the  reasons. 
Only    One  Standard   of   Religion. 

1.  In  matters  of  religion  there  is  only  one  stand- 
ard for  Christians,  and  that  standard  is  our  Lord 
and  Savior  Jesus  Christ.  I  gladly  admit  that  Mr. 
Sunday  jueans  to  be  evangelical  in  his  statements. 
lUit  matiy  of  his  utterances  are,  to  put  it  mildly, 
not  Christ-like,  and  some  of  thcui  arc  travesties  of 

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the  teachings  of  Christ.  Take  the  following  samples, 
less  vulgar  than  many  others,  which  are  both  a 
caricature  and  a  perversion  of  one  of  the  most 
sacred   scenes  in  the   New  Testament: 

"Mary  was  one  of  those  sort  of  uneeda  biscuit, 
peanut  butter,  gelatin  and  pimento  sort  of  women. 

"Martha  was  a  beefsteak,  baked  potato,  apple 
sauce  with  lemon  and  nutmeg,  coffee  and  whipped 
cream,   apple   pie  and   cheese   sort   of   woman. 

"So  3^ou  can  have  your  pick,  but  I  speak  for 
Martha.  So  the  churches  have  a  lot  of  Marthas 
and  a  lot  of  Marys — merely  bench  warmers.  Hurrah 
for  Martha! 

"So  Martha  was  getting  dinner  and  poked  her 
head  in  the  door  where  Mar}-"  was  sitting  and  said: 

"'Alary,   carest  thou  not  that   I   serve  alone?' 

"Wouldn't  it  make  you  tired  if  you  were  doing 
all  the  work  and  had  j'our  hands  all  over  dough 
and  the  sweat  rolling  off  as  you  cooked  the  pota- 
toes, if  your  big,  lazy  sister  was  sitting  doing  noth- 
ing?    Then  Jesus  said: 

"  'Tut,  tut,  Martha,  thou  carest  for  too  many 
little  things.'" 

Take  another  and  worse  instance,  where  Christ 
in  prayer  is  turned  to  a  jesting  use: 

"And  as  He  prayed  the  fashion  of  His  counte- 
nance was  altered.  Ladies,  do  you  want  to  look 
pretty?  If  some  of  you  women  would  spend  less 
on  dope,  pazaza,  and  cold  cream,  and  get  down  on 
your  knees  and  pray,  God  would  make  you  prettier." 

Very  funny,   no  doubt;  and  very  blasphemous. 

Sunday  Irreverently  Familiar. 

2.  At  times  Mr.  Sunday  is  irreverently  familiar 
toward  God.  This  appears  clearly  in  the  scene  at 
his  Philadelphia  meeting  on  January  8: 

"Why,  if  I  thought  I  could  get  any  nearer  God 
by  kneeling,  or  get  nearer  to  Him  by  taking  off  my 
coat,   I'd  do   it." 

(Here  Sunday  suited  the  action  to  the  word  and 
tore  his  coat  from  his  back.  Seizing  it  by  the  collar, 
in  his  right  hand,  he  flung  it  around  to  lend  emphasis 
to  his  utterances.) 

Here   is   another: 

"When  I  am  at  heaven's  gates  I'll  be  free  from 
old  Philly's  blood.  I  can  see  now  the  Day  of  Judg- 
ment, when  the  question  of  Philadelphia  and  of  me 
is  taken  up  by  God. 

"  'You  were  down  in  Philly,  weren't  you,  Billy?' 
the  Lord  will  ask  me. 

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"And  I'll  say  to  Him,  'Yes,  Sir,  Lord,  I  was 
there.' 

"  'Did  you  give  them  mv  message  of  salvation, 
Billy?' 

"  'I  gave  them  your  message,  Lord.  I  gave  it  to 
them  the  best  way  I  could  and  as  I  understood  it. 
You  go  get  the  files  of  the  Philadelphia  papers. 
They  printed  my  sermons,  Lord.  You'll  see  in  them 
what  I  preached,'  will  be  my  answer. 

"And  the  Lord  will  say,  'Come  on  in  Billy;  you're 
free  from  Philadelphia's  blood.'" 

Bible   Against   Swaggering   Impiety. 

Is  this  the  way  the  Bible  speaks?  There  is  no 
place  in  that  book  for  swaggering  impiety.  "Enter 
not  into  judgment  with  thy  servant,  O  Lord,"  is  the 
right  attitude  of  a  soul  in  the  presence  of  God.  Mr. 
Sunday  is  speaking  impudently  in  the  presence  of 
"the  King  eternal,  immortal  and  invisible,"  to  whom 
alone  is  due  "honor  and  glory  forevermorc" — even 
now,  even  at  Mr.  Sunday's  performances.  It  was 
Jonathan  Edwards,  an  early  president  of  Princeton, 
who  wrote  of  these  sublime  words  in  hushed  awe  as 
he  gazed  from  his  window  one  autumn  day:  "As  I 
read  them  the  whole  forest  seemed  to  glow."  No 
irreverence  there.  Is  not  the  devout  fear  of  God 
the  "beginning  of  wisdom"  still,  and  is  it  not  deeply 
needed  in   American   life  today? 

3.  Many  of  Mr.  Sundaj-'s  remarks  are  personally 
abusive  or  disgusting  or  slanderous.  Take  without 
comment  the   following  scries: 

"If  a  woman  on  the  avenue  plays  a  game  of  cards 
in  her  home,  she  is  worse  than  any  blackleg  gambler 
in   the  slums. 

"If  a  minister  believes  and  teaches  evolution,  he 
is  a  stinking  skunk,  a  hypocrite,  and  a  liar. 

"If  I  were  the  wifi"  of  some  of  you  men,  I'd 
refuse  to  clean  tiieir  old  spittoons.  I  say,  let  every 
hog  clean   his  own  trough. 

"Your  wife  has  as  good  a  right  to  line  up  before 
a  bar  and  fill  up  her  skin  with  the  hoggut  you  do 
as  you  have." 

Do  we  need  more  of  the  same  sort? 

4.  There  are  also  some  statements,  fortunately 
few — but  enough — which  are  plainly  indecent.  Take 
the  following  instances,  and  remember  they  arc  the 
words  of  a  professed  iTiinstcr  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ, 
si)oken  at  a  so-called  religious  service.  Sec  if  you 
api>rove  of   them: 

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Statements  Plainly  Indecent. 

"I  can  understand  why  young  bloods  go  in  for 
dancing,  but  sonic  of  you  old  ginks — good  night.  _ 

"Ma  and  I  stopped  in  to  look  at  a  ball  at  an  in- 
auguration ceremony.  Well,  I  will  be  hornswaggled 
if  I  didn't  see  a  woman  there  dancing  with  all  the 
men,  and  she  wore  the  collar  of  her  gown  around  her 
waist.  She  had  a  little  corset  on.  Oh,  I  can't  de- 
scribe it. 

"You  stand  there  and  watch  man  after  man  as 
he  claims  her  hand,  and  puts  his  name  on  her  list. 
Perhaps  that  fellow  was  her  lover  and  you  won 
her  hand — and  you  stand  there  and  watch  your 
wife  folded  in  his  long,  voluptuous,  sensual  embrace, 
their  bodies  swaying  one  against  the  other,  their 
limbs  twining  and  entwining,  her  head  resting  on 
his  breast,  they  breathe  the  vitiated  air  beneath  the 
glittering  candelabra,  and  the  spell  of  the  rnusic, 
and  you  stand  there  and  tell  me  that  there  is  no 
harm  in  it.     You're  too  low  down  for  me. 

"I  want  to  see  the  color  of  some  buck's  hair  that 
can  dance  with  my  wife.  I'm  going  to  monopolize 
that  hugging  myself. 

"Then  Herodias  came  in  and  danced  with  her  foot 
stuck  out  to  a  quarter  of  12,  and  old  Herod  said, 
'Sis,  you're  a  peach.  You  can  have  anything  you 
want,  even  to  the  half  of  my  kingdom.'  She  hiked 
off  to  her  licentious   mother. 

"Why  a  man  with  red  blood  in  his  veins  can't 
look  at  half  the  women  on  the  streets  now  and  not 
have  impure  thoughts. 

'Tittle  girl,  you  look  so  small, 
Don't  you  wear  no  clothes  at  all? 
Don't  you  wear  no  chemise  shirt? 
Don't  you  wear  no  petty  skirt? 
Don't  you  wear  no  underclothes, 
But  your  corset  and  your  hose?" 
No  decent  person  can  read  these  quotations  with- 
out  shame. 

Against  Inflammatory  Mob  Oratory. 

Every  passage  quoted  in  this  article  Is  taken  from 
the  official  copyrighted  report  of  Mr.  Sunday's  Phil- 
adelphia addresses,  published  with  his  sanction  in 
The  Philadelphia  Evening  Telegraph  during  Janu- 
ary and  February.  Their  accuracy  cannot  be  ques- 
tioned. It  is  true  that  these  quotations  are  not  the 
main  stock  and  substance  of  his  addresses,  but  some 
of  the  occasional  ornaments,  giving  what  is  called 

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"punch"  to  his  discourses.  They  are  things  of  the 
sort  singled  out  for  special  separate  printing  in 
The  Evening  Telegraph,  often  in  large  type,  as 
"jolts."     So  they  are. 

So  in  the  name  of  decency  and  of  the  purity  and 
sanctity  of  our  Christian  faith  Princeton  Univer- 
sity positively  refuses  to  approve  Mr.  Sunday's  per- 
formances as  suitable  for  the  edification  of  our  stu- 
dents. In  times  of  hysterical  excitement  we  think 
it  our  right  and  duty  to  stand  firm  against  all  in- 
flammatory mob-oratory  in  whatever  field  it  may 
appear.  For  his  quiet  and  sensible  stand  in  this 
matter,  President  Hibben  deserves  the  thanks  of 
all    friends    of    education    and    religion.- 


It  is  computed  that  in  raising  these  products 
the  farmers  paid  for  labor  a  total  of  $13,485,- 
460,  a  sum  sufficient  to  employ  74,919  persons 
for  six  months  at  an  average  wage  of  $30  per 
month.— REPRESENTATIVE  J.  HENRY 
GOEKE,  of  Ohio. 


THE   HOBSON   RESOLUTION. 

'T'lIE  following  is  the  text  of  the  TTobson  Resolu- 
■^  tion  for  National  Proliibition,  debated  in  Con- 
gress on  December  22,  1914.  The  resolution  failed 
to  pass. 

Resolved  by  the  Senate  and  TTouse  of  Representa- 
tives of  the  United  States  of  America  in  Congress 
assembled  (two-thirds  of  each  House  concurring 
therein),  That  the  following  amendment  of  the  Con- 
stitution be,  and  hereby  is,  proposed  to  the  states, 
to  become  valid  as  a  part  of  the  Constitution  when 
ratified  by  the  Legislatures  of  the  several  states  as 
provided  by  the  Constitution: 

ARTICLE.... 

"Section  1.  The  sale,  manufacture  for  sale,  trans- 
portation for  sale,  importation  for  sale  of  intoxicat- 
ing liquors  for  beverage  purposes  in  the  Ignited 
States  and  all  territory  subject  to  the  jurisdiction 
thereof,  and  exportation  for  sale  thereof,  are  for- 
ever prohibited." 

"Section  2.  The  Congress,  or  the  states  within 
their  respective  juifisdictions,  shall  have  power  to 
enforce  this  article  by  all  needful   legislation." 

Extracts  from  the  debate  on  this  Hobson  Resolu- 
tion appear  throughout  the  Manual  in  black  type. 
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WEST    VIRGINIA   LIQUOR    CASES    INVOLV- 
ING  THE   WEBB-KENYON   LAW. 

'T'HE  opinion  of  the  court  was  delivered  by  Chief 
Justice  White  on  January  8,  1917,  concurred  in 
by  all  members  of  the  court  except  Mr.  Justice 
JTolmes  and  Mr.  Justice  Vandaventer,  who  dis- 
sented. The  court  holds  that  a  Uw  of  West  Vir- 
ginia which  prohibits  the  delivery  by  railroads  and 
express  companies  of  liquor  shipments  consigned 
to  citizens  of  that  state  for  their  personal  use  is  a 
valid  law  and  applies  to  shipments  from  points  in 
other  states.  By  the  Webb-Kenyon  Law  Congress 
has  provided  that  the  laws  of  a  state  may  apply  to 
interstate  shipments,  and  where  the  state  law  pro- 
hibits the  delivery  of  shipments  generally,  the 
Webb-Kenyon  Law  permits  the  state  law  to  operate, 
and  to  be  enforced  against  interstate  shipments. 
The  court  further  holds  that  under  the  commerce 
clause  of  the  Constitution,  which  authorizes  Con- 
gress to  regulate  interstate  commerce,  that  Con- 
gress may  establish  a  general  regulation,  whereby 
the  laws  of  the  particular  states  may  come  into 
operation;  and  that  the  Webb-Kenyon  Law  is  such 
a  general  regulation.  The  court  states  that  such 
method  of  combined  regulation  through  an  Act  of 
Congress  and  state  laws,  which  is  valid  as  to  in- 
toxicating liquors,  may  not  be  valid  as  to  articles 
of  commerce  other  than  intoxicating  liquors. 
Liquors,  because  of  their  peculiar  nature,  are  sub- 
ject to  special  rules  of  governmental  regulation 
and   control. 


ONLY   A   DREAM 


While  the 
"  D  r  y  s  "  are 
dreaming  of 
Wo  rld-wid  e 
Prohibition,  U. 
S,  Internal  Rev- 
enues are  in- 
creasing  tre- 
mendously. 


n%A 


RUSSIA  IS  NOT  DRY. 

Chicago  DaUy  News  Correspondent  Says  There  Are 

Six  Sources  of  Drink. 

O  USSIAN  prohibition  is  class  legislation,  accord- 
*^  ing  to  Bassett  Digby,  special  correspondent  of 
the  Chicago  Daily  News. 

Digby  writes: 

Before  considering  the  results  of  prohibition  in 
Russia  it  is  necessary  to  note  that  the  economic 
position  of  the  country  is  extremely  complicated. 
The  men  of  the  nation  are  away  at  the  war;  industry 
and  agriculture  are  "carrying  on"  as  best  they  can. 
Exporting  is  practically  at  a  standstill.  The  peasant 
is  deprived  of  his  vodka. 

To  begin  witii,  it  is  a  mistake  to  imagine,  as  many 
enthusiastic  prohibition  advocates  abroad  apparently 
imagine,  that  no  drink  may  be  obtained  nor  dnmken 
men  be  seen  in  Russia.  Of  vodka  there  is  certainly 
precious  little  anywhere  in  the  town,  except  in  the 
cellars  of  the  privileged  clas.scs — the  nobility  and 
higii  government  officials.  In  the  villages  there  is 
none.  But  only  dull-witted  men  and  poor  men  arc 
imable  to  obtain  drink  in  the  towns  and  cities.  In 
Kiev  and  the  south  generally  beer  and  light  wines 
are  on  sale  without  restriction.  In  Moscow, 
I'etrograd  and  the  big  northern  towns  there  are  six 
sources  of  drink. 

Six  Sources  of  Drink. 

There  are  the  nobility,  the  high  officials  and  mem- 
bers of  the  embassies,  who  arc  subject  to  no  restric- 
tions and  obtain  as  much  as  they  like. 

There  arc  the  cellars  of  citizens  who  either  held 
heavy  stocks  before  the  war  or  who  received  a 
widely  circulated  tip  over  wine  merchants'  tele- 
phones just  before  the  prohibition  of  sale  came  into 
force. 

There  are  tlie  wounded  officers  and  invalids  who 
easily  obtain  drink  permits  from  hospital  authorities 
and  doctors. 

'I'hcre  are  the  French  subjects,  who  for  some 
mysterious  reason  are  given  generous  wine  permits, 
while  no  otlier  foreign  subjects  may  receive,  merely 
by  statement  of  their  nationality,  even  a  single 
bottle  of  wine. 

Tlicre  are  the  hotels  and  big  restaurants,  nearly 
every  one  of  wiiicli,  of  any  consequence,  readily  sup- 
plies drink-  at  a  price  -  to  clients  who  dine  in  a 
private  room  and  who  tip  heavily. 

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And  then  there  arc  the  brewers  and  distillers  of 
strange  decoctions  of  denaturalized  alcohol,  furniture 
polish,  hops  and  varnish. 

Strange  Mixtures  Sold. 

It  should  be  noticed  that  although  there  are  all 
these  sources  of  supply  in  the  northern  Russian 
towns,  liquor  is  either  troublesome  or  costly  to  ob- 
tain, or  both.  The  town  peasant  may  obtain  only 
stuff  that  often  poisons  the  consumer. 

Few  of  the  villages  of  Russia  are  without  their 
illicit  liquor  brewers  or  distillers,  but  their  output  is 
so  unpleasant  to  drink  and  so  deleterious  that  it  ap- 
peals to  only  a  few^  of  the  village's  hopeless  old 
drunkards.  When  you  realize  that  village  liquor  in 
Russia  today  consists  of  such  beverages  as  denatur- 
alized alcohol  with  tobacco  and  pepper;  varnish 
soaked  through  bread;  and  peppered  benzine  (these 
drinks  were  among  the  discoveries  recently  made  by 
an  official  investigation  of  the  Volhynia  zemstvo), 
you  hardly  wonder  that  the  illicit  distillers  often 
have  been  drummed  out  of  the  village  by  their  half 
poisoned  clientele. 


As  a  representative  of  labor  on  this  floor, 
I  am  proud  to  stand  in  unison  with  my  old 
associate  and  co-worker,  Samuel  Gompers,  of 
the  American  Federation  of  Labor,  and  state 
with  added  emphasis  that  it  would  be  far 
better,  far  more  wise,  more  moral,  and  a 
thousand  times  more  desirable  to  take  the 
position  of  organized  labor  on  this  question 
and  insist  on:  (a)  Increasing  wages;  (b) 
Shorter  hours  of  work;  (c)  More  leisure,  so 
as  to  afford  an  opportunity  for  the  cultiva- 
tion of  (1)  Better  tastes;  (2)  Better  aspira- 
tions; (3)  Higher  ideals;  (4)  Better  standard 
of  living;  (5)  Freedom  from  the  burdens  of 
excessive  toil;  (6)  Better  homes  and  sur- 
roundings for  the  poor — than  try  to  effect  by 
statutory  law  that  which  must  come  from 
the  ever-expanding  consciousness  of  a  world's 
people.  —  REPRESENTATIVE  MICHAEL 
J.  GILL,  of  Missouri. 


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ANTI-SALOON    LEAGUE    AFRAID    OF   REAL 
PROHIBITION. 

T  T  has  often  been  asserted  that  the  Anti-Saloon 
*  League  is  afraid  of  prohibition,  and  will  balk 
when  brought  face  to  face  with  the  proposition. 
Proof  of  this  was  found  in  South  Dakota.  When  a 
"bone  dry"  law  was  proposed  for  that  State,  Supt. 
R.  N.  Holsaple,  of  The  South  Dakota  Anti-Saloon 
League,  registered  his  opposition  and  was  quoted 
by  the  Sioux  Falls  (S.  Dak.)  "Argus  Leader"  as 
saying: 

"The  Anti-Saloon  League  is  against  booze 
drinking,  needless  to  say,"  said  Holsaple,  "and 
nothing  would  suit  us  better  than  a  bone  dry 
law,  which  I  believe  can  be  enforced  if  it  is 
popular.  \Vc  know  many  who  drink  in  their 
homes  voted  our  way  expressly  to  oust  saloons. 
We  wish  to  avoid  impairing  prohibition  by 
arousing  violent  opposition  to  its  provisions. 

"The   liquor   influences   are   insisting   on    bone 
dry   regulation.      They   have   only   one   purpose, 
and  that  to  depopularize  prohibition,'' 
The  Baltimore  "Evening  Sun,"  commenting  editor- 
ially upon  Holsaplc's  statement,  said: 

"We  tremble  for  Superintendent  Holsaple,  of 
the  Anti-Saloon  League  of  South  Dakota.  Can 
it  be  possible  that  he  has  fallen  under  the 
malign  influence  of  the  'Liquor  Ring?'  He  is 
actually  opposing  a  bill  to  make  his  interesting 
commonwcaltli  'bone  dry,'  instead  of  merely 
saloonless. 

"Mr.  Holsaple  adances  two  reasons  for  his 
amazing  stantl.  Tlic  first  is  that  in  the  cam- 
paign last  fall  the  voters  were  assured  by  the 
League  in  many  speeches  and  advertisements 
that  its  object  was  only  to  drive  out  the  saloons 
and  the  sale  of  liquor,  and  that  any  person  who 
felt  a  need  for  the  cup  that  cheers  might  have  it 
shipped  to  him  and  enjoy  its  comfort  at  his  own 
fireside  or  in  the  barn.  This  assurance,  it  is 
said,  gained  many  votes,  and  now  Mr.  Holsaple 
considers  it  a  breach  of  faitii  to  double-cross 
those  trustful  citizens,  although  it  seems  hard  to 
understand  why  any  friend  of  the  Rum  Demon 
should  liave  any  right  that  an  Anti-Saloon  leader 
felt  called  upon  to  respect. 

"But    there    is   anotiicr    reason    given    by    Mr. 
Holsaple    for    his    ai)Ostasy— namely,    that    if    a 
rigid  anti-shipping   law    be   tacked    to    the  anti- 
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selling  constitutional  amendment  it  may  make 
prohibition  so  unpopular  in  South  Dakota  that 
there  would  be  danger  of  a  reaction  that  would 
throw  the  state  back  into  the  arms  of  the  Rum 
Demon  as  preferable  to  'bone  dryness.'  But 
what  will  happen  to  Mr.  Holsaple  at  the  hands, 
and  tongues,  of  advanced  desiccators  we  shudder 
to  contemplate. 

"Incidentally,  it  may  be  questioned  whether 
the  prohibitionists  are  as  much  elated  as  they 
might  be  over  the  recent  Supreme  Cour'  decision 
sustaining  the  validity  of  the  Webb  anti-shipping 
act.  Like  Mr.  Holsaple,  they  have  been  wont  to 
argue  that  prohibition  did  not  abridge  the  per- 
sonal liberty  of  .any  man  or  woman  to  take  a 
drink,  but  was  aimed  only  at  the  saloon,  while 
at  the  same  time  excusing  the  failure  of  prohi- 
bition to  prohibit  on  the  ground  that  the  'dry' 
states  were  debauched  by  their  'wet'  sisters,  who 
flooded  them  with  booze.  Now,  however,  any 
state  can  make  itself  as  near  a  perfect  Sahara  as 
it  pleases.  No  longer  can  West  Virginia  blame 
Maryland  for  its  'boozing,'  because  it  can  have 
a  standing  army  of  sentinels  to  patrol  its  borders 
and  bar  out  every  drop  of  liquor  from  this 
sinful  region. 

"For  the  same  reason  the  decision  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  has  weakened  the  case  for  national 
prohibition.  The  leading  argument  for  a  'dry' 
amendment  has  been  that  prohibition  could  not 
be  enforced  in  'dry'  states  as  long  as  other  states 
were  allowed  to  make  liquor  and  ship  it  across 
state  lines.  Now,  apparently  the  only  object  of 
a  nation-wide  law  would  be  to  give  Idaho,  Okla- 
homa, Mississippi  and  the  like  the  opportunity  to 
redeem  as  brands  from  the  burning  such  lost 
sinners  as  those  in  Massachusetts,  New  York, 
Pennsylvania  and  Maryland  wholly  against  their 
will  and  desire." 

Not  only  are  Anti-Saloon  League  officials  opposed 
to  absolute   prohibition,   but    the   press   in    so-called 
"dry"   states   take  a  like   stand.      A  paragraph  from 
an  editorial  in  the  Waterloo  (Iowa)  "Courier,"  read: 
"But  the  question  still  remains  as  to  whether 
public  sentiment  would  favor  going  to  such  an 
extreme  length  as  has  been  done  in  West  Vir- 
ginia, Oregon  and  other  'dry'  territory.      Prohi- 
bition  in    Iowa  has   heretofore   meant   only   the 
absence  of  the  saloon  and  the  prosecution  of  the 


bootlegger.  That  measure  of  prohibition  pop- 
ular sentiment  undoubtedly  favors.  But  if  an 
absolute  ban  were  placed  on  the  importation  ot 
all  liquors,  even  for  personal  use,  there  might  be 
many  who  are  now  friends  of  temperance  to 
revolt  and  vote  against  the  prohibition  amend- 
ment." 


PROHIBITION    WITHOUT    COMPENSATION 
IS  ROBBERY. 

TTHE  following  communication,  attacking  the  stand 
of  Bryan  upon  prohibition  and  declaring  that 
prohibition  without  compensation  for  the  liquor 
dealer  is  in  reality  legalized  robbery,  appeared  in  tho 
Cincinnati  Enquirer: 

"Mr.  Bryan  was  given  a  dinner  in  Washingtoti 
Thursday,  ostensibly  by  admirers  among  Democratic 
officials  and  members  of  Congress.  He  availed 
himself  of  the  occasion  to  announce  his  views  on 
certain  alleged  reforms  to  which  he  hopes  to  commit 
the  Democratic  i>arty.  He  advocated  national  pro- 
hibition in  his  address  and  urged  the  Democrats  of 
this  country  to  commit  themselves  to  that  policy, 
lie  argues  in  favor  of  prohibition  because,  as  he 
claims,  it  is  a  great  moral  question,  and  urges  the 
extermination  of  the  saloon. 

"Mr.  Bryan  argues  for  the  destruction  of  the 
saloon  as  if  that  were  all  of  the  prohibition  question. 
He  knows  perfectly  well  that  what  he  proposes  is 
only  a  part,  and  a  very  small  part  of  the  real  ques- 
tion. National  prohil)ition  means  a  total  destruction 
of  the  brewery  and  distilling  business  in  the  Ihiited 
.States.  Mr.  Bryan  would  be  slow  to  confiscate 
private  property  for  public  benefit  on  any  other 
question,  and  yet  in  this  instance  he  is  silent  on  the 
question  of  compensation. 

Temperance  Is  Not  Prohibition. 

"There  is  but  one  solution  of  the  so-called  liquor 
(luestion.  That  is  personal  self-control  and  the 
practice  of  true  temperance.  This  cannot  be  attaine<l 
i)y  legislation. 

"But  if  the  American  people  who  have  for  year*; 
profited  by  tiie  taxes  derived  from  the  brewing  and 
distilling  industries  to  the  extent  of  $;i2r).000,000 
annually,  now  decide  to  dispense  with  tliat  income 
and  levy  other  taxes,  there  is  but  one  way  to  justly 
close  the  present  controversy. 

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"If  the  destruction  is  to  take  place  of  the  vast 
investment  in  distillery  and  brewery  property  used 
for  the  making  of  liquors,  an  occupation  which  the 
Supreme  Court  has  recently  declared  to  be  a  'lawful 
business,'  then  this  lawful  business  should  be  de- 
stroyed only  with  full  compensation  for  the  money 
invested  in  it.  Any  other  method  of  procedure  is 
confiscation  pure  and  simple. 

"Air.  Bryan  makes  a  strange  exhibition  of  him- 
self when  he  proposes  to  settle  what  he  calls  a  great 
moral  question  by  spoliation  and  confiscation. 

"Every  dollar  invested  in  brewery  property  today 
in  the  United  States  was  so  invested  under  the 
encohragement  and  fostering  care  of  the  Federal 
Government,  which  derives  one-third  of  its  annual 
revenue  from  this  source.  To  destroy  such  property 
without  compensation  to  its  owners  is  robbery,  and 
Mr.  Bryan  should  know  that  robbery  by  act  of 
government  is  a  greater  crime  than  by  act  of  the 
individual. 

"It  is  expected  that  human  beings  will  err,  but 
government  is  relied  upon  to  be  always  just  and 
honest  in  its  dealings." 


CONFISCATION    VS.     COMPENSATION. 


Distiller  States   Some  Facts  Regarding  this  Policy 
Applied  to  Other  Businesses. 

A  DISTILLER  recently  sent  a  reply  to  an  insur- 
■'*•  ance  company,  whose  official  bulletin,  without 
any  excuse  whatsoever,  takes  an  indirect  rap  at  the 
liquor  industry.     The  letter  says: 

October  11,  1916. 
Bankers'  Life  Company,  Des  Moines,  Iowa: 

Gentlemen — I  am  in  receipt  of  your  notice  of 
premium  due  on  my  policies,  and  accompanying  same 
I  note,  with  much  interest,  your  Bulletin,  Volume 
1,  No.  7. 

Approximately  one-half  of  the  Bulletin  is  devoted 
to  advocating  the  confiscation  of  my  property  with- 
out compensation.  I  am  writing  to  you  to  ask  how 
you  can  approve  confiscation  of  property,  based  on 
the  unsupported  and  misleading  statements  of  the 
notorious  Billy  Sunday. 

Have  you  ever  read  the  report  of  the  Hon.  Andrew 
F.  West,  Dean  of  the  Graduate  School  of  Princeton 
University,  on  Billy  Sunday?      I  am  enclosing  copy 

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of    Dean    West's    statement    for    your    information. 
(This  report  appears  on  page  18.) 

Since  when  has  the  Bankers*  Life  Company  be- 
come a  tail  to  the  prohibition  kite,  with  all  its  un- 
fairness and  un-Americanism?  It  seems  to  me  that 
a  great  corporation  like  yours  should  not  stoop  to 
giving  publicity  to  statements,  the  truthfulne,ss  of 
which  it  has  not  investigatc(^.  It  goes  without  say- 
ing that  the  statements  being  untrue,  you  would  not 
have  published  them,  if  you  had  made  any  investiga- 
tion of  the  facts. 

Now  as  to  your  claims  of  the  benefits  of  prohibi- 
tion of  vodka  in  Russia,  copied  from  the  Ottawa 
(Ont.)  Journal.  You  entirely  overlook  the  fact  that 
the  largest  percentage  of  able-bodied  men  in  Russia 
are  away  from  home  and  at  war.  TUese  men  are 
devoting  their  energies  to  killing  their  fellow-men. 
Naturally,  the  absence  from  their  homes  and  from 
their  usual  occupations  of  several  millions  of  men 
has  wrought  many  changes. 

Crime  and  drunkenness  at  home  have  decreased  in 
proportion  to  the  diminished  male  population.  The 
few  men  at  home  are  forced  to  increased  and  more 
regular  efTorts  in  factory  work.  Certainly  wages 
have  increased.  Wages  have  increased  here  in  the 
Ignited  States  and  in  Ohio  because  of  this  war  and 
its  demand  on  many  lines  of  production  and  manu- 
facture. Do  you  ascribe  the  increase  in  wages  in 
Ohio  (which  is  not  a  prohibition  state)  to  prohibi- 
tion of  vodka  in  Russia? 

Vodka  is  a  vile  beverage.  Any  one  who  knows 
anything  about  beverages  knows  that  it  is  an  impure, 
immature  form  of  alcohol  and  not  in  the  same  class 
in  any  way  with  the  pure  food  beverages  such  as 
wine,  brandy,  beer  and  whiskey  produced  in  the 
United  States, 

The  distillers  and  brewers  pay  the  United  States 
Government  annually  a  sum  in  cxceess  of  the  entire 
cost  of  supporting  the  army  and  navy  of  the  L'nitcd 
States.  If  you  favor  tlic  destruction  of  the  property 
of  the  distillers  and  brewers,  as  a  public  benefit, 
should  not  the  public  be  willing  to  pay  for  the  prop- 
erty destroyed? 

Why  do  you  solicit  my  patronage  and  at  the  same 
time  favor  the  destruction  of  my  property  without 
compensation?  A  distillery  forbidden  to  distill 
spirits  is  as  valueless  as  an  insurance  company  for- 
bidden to  issue  policies. 

SO 


How  About  the  Life  Insurance  People? 

Some  few  years  ago  a  great  hue  and  cry  was  raised 
ill  this  country  against  some  of  the  very  great  ex- 
travagances, to  put  it  mildly,  practiced  by  the  life 
insurance  companies.  Would  you  have  considered 
it  fair,  because  of  these  extravagances  and  dishon- 
esties of  some  of  the  officers  of  the  life  insurance 
companies,  that  life  insurance  companies  should  be 
destroyed?  My  recollection  is  that  the  life  insur- 
ance companies,  as  a  whole,  favored  regulation,  not 
the  prohibition  of  their  business. 

I  admit  there  are  excesses  in  the  use  of  wine,  beer 
and  whiskey  just  as  there  were  excesses  in  the 
methods  of  selling  life  insurance;  but  such  excess  is 
certainly  not  a  basis  for  the  destruction  of  the  busi- 
ness itself.  Because  there  are  speeders  on  the 
streets  who  drive  automobiles  to  the  danger  of  the 
lives  of  peaceful  citizens,  the  demand  springs  up  for 
regulation  of  the  automobile,  but  not  for  the  destruc- 
tion of  the  industry. 

There  are  many  more  deaths  in  the  United  States 
from  excess  in  speeding  automobiles  than  because  of 
the  excessive  use  of  wine,  whiskey  or  beer,  and  yet 
you  do  not  appear  to  urge  prohibition  of  the  auto- 
mobile industry. 

Since  you  published  the  (unsupported)  claims  of 
Billy  Sunday,  may  I  not  ask  if  you  will  also  publish 
in  the  next  issue  of  your  "Bulletin"  the  letter  of  the 
Dean  of  the  Graduate  School  of  Princeton  Univers- 
ity, in  reference  to  Billy  Sunday,  which  I  enclose? 

I  am  a  distiller.  My  business  is  as  lawful  as 
yours,  so  held  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States.  It  exists  because  of  the  demand  of  the  peo- 
ple for  my  product,  just  as  does  yours.  The  busi- 
ness of  distilling  is  as  old  as  history.  Our  Govern- 
ment derives  one-third  of  its  income  from  its  taxes 
on  distilled  and  brewed  beverages.  I  simply  ask  for 
fair  play. 

A  distinguished  member  of  Congress,  in  his  speech 
opposing  National  Prohibition,  used  the  following 
Avords:  "Scorn  may  be  the  answer  of  the  fanatic,  but 
the  just  man  will  consider  the  facts.  The  man  who 
votes  to  destroy  his  neighbor's  property  today  may 
see  his  own  sent  to  the  shambles  tomorrow." 


CARDINAL  MANNING'S  VIEW. 

"pvRUNKENNESS  is  not  the  sin  of  the  drink,  but 
^   of  the  ^runkard."— Cardinal  Manning. 


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GEORGIA  GIN. 

D  ECENT  tests  showing  what  liquor  is  made  of  as 
^^  offered  for  sale  to  thirsty  citizens  of  Prohibition 
states,  affords  an  illustration  of  what  the  palate  and 
the  stomach  can  become  accustomed  to  under  the 
stress  of  circumstances. 

In  the  police  court  of  Savannah,  Ga.,  on  Monday 
of  this  week,  Abe  Raskin,  a  storekeeper,  was  on 
trial  for  selling  liquor  in  violation  of  the  Prohibition 
law.  .  .  .  The  gin  was  the  center  of  attraction 
and  was  offered  in  evidence.  .  .  .  Here  is  the 
formula:  one  part  water  or  stale  soda,  one  part 
grain  alcohol,  one  drop  oil  of  cologne,  and  gin  re- 
sults. This  is  Savannah  gin  under  state-wide  Pro- 
hibition.— Hartford  (Conn.)  Courant. 


ABRAHAM  LINCOLN'S  TEMPERANCE 
VIEWS. 
A  BRAHA^r  LIN'COLN,  wore  he  to  return  to  earth. 
''*•  as  his  first  act  would  without  a  doubt  rebuke  and 
repudiate  the  methods  and  personnel  of  the  Anti- 
Saloon  League,  which  pretends  from  time  to  time 
to  receive  inspiration  from  the  sayings  and  speeches 
of  the  great  emancipator. 

The  spcctacularity,  the  hate,  the  denunciation,  the 
bitterness,  tiie  invective  and  the  underhand  methods 
that  characterize  the  Anti-Saloon  League  campaigns 
in  behalf  of  Prohibition  are  the  very  tilings  that  Lin- 
coln deplored  and  publicly  spoke  against. 

Lincoln,  in  his  love  for  his  fellow-men,  was  a  tem- 
perance advocate,  but  he  believed  in  being  chari- 
table in  an  effort  to  decrease  intemperance,  he  be- 
lieved in  converting  the  individual  by  appealing  to 
his  character  atul  in  a  manner  to  win  his  confidence. 
By  the  same  token  he  was  opposed  to  driving  an 
individual,  to  denouncing  him,  to  cursing  and  abus- 
ing him,  always  contending  "that  a  drop  of  honey 
catches  more  Hies  than  a  gallon  of  gall." 

"By  virtue  of  half  a  dozen  signatures,  Berry  and 
Lincoln  became  proprietors  of  the  only  mercantile 
establishment  in  the  village." 

In  the  spring  of  the  next  year,  finding  their  mer- 
chandise gaining  them  little  or  nothing,  they  con- 
cluded to  keep  a  tavern  in  addition  to  their  other 
business  and  tlie  records  of  the  county,  according 
to  Sagamon  county,  show  that  Berry  took  out  a 
license  for  that  purpose  on  the  6th  of  March,  183:J. 
(From  the  Century  edition  of  Nicolay  and  Hay, 
Abraham  Lincoln,  Vol.  1,  Chapter  C,  pagg  111.) 


Berry  &  Lincoln  License. 

A  copy  of  the  original  license  which  appears  be- 
low presents  evidence  which  cannot  be  disputed: 

Springfield,  Wednesday,  March  6,  1833. 
Ordered  that  William  F.  Berry  in  the  name  of 
Berry  and  Lincoln  have  license  to  keep  a  tavern  in 
New  Salem  to  continue  12  months  from  this  date, 
and  that  they  pay  one  dollar  in  addition  to  six  dol- 
lars heretofore  paid  as  per  Treasury  receipt  and  that 
they  be  allowed  the  following  rates  (viz): 

French  Brandy  per  ^  pint 25 

Peach  Brandy  per  ^  pint 18^ 

Apple  Brandy  per  ^^2  pint 12 

Holland  Gin  per  Yi  pint 18^ 

Domestic  per  ^  pint 12^ 

Wine  per  Vz  pint 25 

Rum  per  5^2  pint 18^4 

Whiskey  per  >4  pint 12^^ 

Breakfast,   dinner,    supper 25 

Lodging,  per  night 12 j.4 

Horse,  per  night 25 

Single  feed 12^/^- 

Breakfast,  dinner  and  supper  for  stage- 
passengers  37,^ 

Who  gave  bond  as  required  by  law. 
NOTE — One  "bit"  was  a  coin  valued  at  12^c;  one 
"fip''  was  a  coin  valued  at  6^c.  A  "bit"  and  a  "fip," 
therefore,  w^ould  amount  to  18^c;  3  "bits"  to  37^c. 
This  accounts  for  the  prices  listed  opposite  the  arti- 
cles mentioned  in  the  license. 

A  study  of  the  life  and  writings  of  Lincoln,  will 
show^  to  the  unbiased  mind  that  Abraham  Lincoln 
was  a  temperance  man  and  a  temperance  advocate 
in  the  correct  sense;  that  is,  he  believed  in  modera- 
tion in  the  use  of  all  things.  The  quotations  that 
the  Prohibitionists  have  used  as  coming  from  Lin- 
coln, when  those  quotations  have  been  authenic, 
have  usually  been  statements  which  he  made  when 
speaking  of  the  abuse  and  excessive  use  of  liquors. 
Mr.  Lincoln's  ideas,  however,  upon  the  liquor  ques- 
tion were  far  removed  from  those  of  the  modern 
agitating  Prohibition  leader.  The  following  ex- 
tracts taken  from  his  address  delivered  February  22, 
1842,  before  the  Springfield  Washington  Temper- 
ance Society  (pages  195  to  209,  Nicolay  and  Hay,  Vol.  1, 
Gettysburg  edition)  will  bear  out  the  above  statement. 
"The  preacher,  it  is  said,  advocates  temperance 
because  he  is  a  fanatic,  and  desires  a  union  of  the 
church   and   state;   the  lawyer  from  his  pride,  and 


vanity  of  hearing  himself  speak;  and  the  hired  agent 
for  his  salary." 

"Too  much  denunciation  against  dram-sellers  and 
dram  drinkers  was  indulged  in.  This  I  think  was 
both  impolitic  and  unjust.  It  was  impolitic,  because 
it  is  not  much  in  the  nature  of  man  to  be  driven  to 
anything;  still  less  to  be  driven  about  that  which 
is  exclusively  his  own  business;  and  least  of  all 
such  driving  is  to  be  submitted  to  at  the  expense 
of  pecuniary  interest  of  a  burning  appetite. 

5i:  ******* 

Convince;    Don't  Dictate. 

"To  have  expected  them  to  do  otherwise  than  they 
did — to  have  expected  them  not  to  meet  denuncia- 
tion with  denunciation,  crimination  with  crimination, 
and  anathema  with  anathema — was  to  expect  a  re- 
versal of  human  nature,  which  is  God's  decree  and 
can  never  be  reversed.  When  the  conduct  of  men  is 
designed  to  be  influenced,  persuasion,  kind,  unas- 
suming persuasion,  should  ever  be  adopted.  It  is  an 
old  and  true  maxim  "that  a  drop  of  honey  catches 
more  flics  than  a  gallon  of  gall."  So  with  man.  If 
you  would  win  a  man  to  your  cause,  first  convince 
iiim  that  you  arc  his  sincere  friend.  Therein  is  a 
drop  of  honey  that  catches  his  heart,  which,  say 
what  he  will,  is  the  great  high  road  to  his  reason, 
and  which  when  once  gained,  you  will  find  but  little 
trouble  in  convincing  his  judgment  of  the  justice 
of  your  cause,  if  indeed  that  cause  really  be  a  just 
one.  0n  the  contrary,  assume  to  dictate  to  his 
judgment,  or  to  command  his  action,  or  to  mark  him 
as  one  to  be  shunned  or  despised,  and  he  will  retreat 
within  himself,  close  all  the  avenues  to  his  head 
and  heart;  and  though  your  cause  be  naked  truth 
itself,  transformed  to  the  heaviest  lance,  harder  than 
steel,  and  sharper  than  steel  can  be  made,  and 
though  you  throw  it  with  more  than  Herculean  force 
and  precision,  you  shall  be  no  more  able  to  pierce 
him  than  to  penetrate  the  hard  shell  of  a  tortoise 
with  a  rye  straw.  Such  is  man,  and  so  must  he  be 
mulerstood  by  those  who  would  lead  him,  even  to 
his  own  best  interests." 

"Another  error,  as  it  seems  to  me,  into  which  the 
old  reformers  fell,  was  the  position  that  all  hab- 
itual drunkards  were  utterly  incorrigible,  and  there- 
fore nuist  be  turned  adrift  and  damned,  without 
remedy  in  order  that  the  grace  of  temperance 
nnght  abound,  to  the  temperate  then,  and  to  all 
mankind  some  hundreds  of  years  thereafter.      There 

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is  in  this  something  so  repugnant  to  humanity,  so 
uncharitable,  so  cold-blooded  and  feelingless,  that 
it  never  did  nor  ever  can  enlist  the  enthusiasm  of  a 
popular  cause.  We  could  not  love  the  man  who 
taught  it — we  could  not  hear  him  with  patience. 
The  heart  could  not  throw  open  its  portals  to  it — 
the  generous  man  could  not  adopt  it — it  could  not 
mix  with  his  blood.  It  looked  so  fiendishly  selfish, 
so  like  throwing  fathers  and  brothers  overboard  to 
lighten  the  boat  for  our  security,  that  the  noble- 
minded  shrank  from  the  manifest  meanness  of  the 
thing.  And  besides  this,  the  benefits  of  a  reforma- 
tion to  be  affected  by  such  a  system  were  too  remote 
in  point  of  time  to  warmly  engage  many  in  its 
behalf.  Few  can  be  induced  to  labor  exclusively 
for  posterity;  and  none  will  do  it  enthusiastically. 
Posterity  has  done  nothing  for  us;  and  theorize  on 
it  as  we  may,  practically  we  shall  do  very  little  for 
it,  unless  we  are  made  to  think  we  are  at  the  same 
time  doing  something  for  ourselves." 

Lincoln  on  Personal  Liberty. 

Lincoln  then  proceeds  to  close  his  speech  with 
the  following  words:  "This  is  the  one  hundredth 
and  tenth  anniversary  of  the  birthday  of  Washing- 
ton; v/e  are  met  to  celebrate  this  day.  Washington 
is  the  mightiest  name  on  earth — long  since  mightiest 
in  the  cause  of  civil  liberty,  still  mightiest  in  moral 
reformation.  On  that  name  no  eulogy  is  expected. 
It  cannot  be.  To  add  brightness  to  the  sun  or 
glory  to  the  name  of  Washington  is  alike  impossible. 
Let  none  attempt.  In  solemn  awe  pronounce  the 
name,  and  in  its  naked  deathness  splendor  leaves 
it  shining  on." 

Washington,  a  Distiller. 

George  Washington,  concerning  whom  Lincoln 
spoke  with  so  much  eloquence  and  reverence,  was 
the  owner  of  a  distillery.  In  his  will  at  Mt.  Vernon, 
July  9,  1799,  we  read  as  follows: 

"I,  George  Washington,  of  Mount  Vernon,  a  citi- 
zen of  the  United  States  and  lately  President  of  the 
same,  do  make,  ordain  and  declare  this  instrument, 
which  is  written  with  my  own  hand  and  every  page 
thereof  subscribed  with  my  name,  to  be  my  last 
Avill  and  testament,  revoking  all  others: 

"Item — to  my  dearly  beloved  wife,  Martha  Wash- 
ington, I  give  and  bequeath  the  use,  profit  and  bene- 
fit of  the  whole  estate,  real  and  personal,  for  the 
term  of  her  natural  life. 


"As  I  also  do  my  household  and  kitchen  furniture 
of  every  sort  and  kind  with  the  LIQUORS  and  gro- 
ceries which  may  be  on  hand. 

"I  give  and  bequeath  to  the  said  Lawrence  Lewis 
and  Eleanor  Park  Lewis,  his  wife,  and  their  heirs, 
the  residue  of  my  Mount  Vernon  estate — all  the  land 
north  of  the  road  leading  from  the  ford  of  Dogue 
Run  to  the  Gum  Spring,  as  described  in  the  device 
of  the  other  part  of  the  tract  to  Bushrod  Washing- 
ton until  it  comes  to  the  stone  and  three  red  or 
Spanish  oaks  on  the  knowl — thence  with  a  rectan- 
gular line  to  the  back  line  (between  Mr.  Mason  and 
me),  thence  with  tliat  line  westerly  along  the  new 
double  ditch  to  Dogue  Run,  by  the  tumbling  dam  of 
111}'  mill,  thence  with  the  said  run  to  the  ford,  afore- 
mentioned, to  which  I  add  all  the  land  I  possess 
w  est  of  said  Dogue  Run  and  Dogue  Creek,  bounded 
(asterly  and  southerly  thereby,  together  with  the 
mill,  DISTILLERY  and  all  other  houses  and  im- 
])rovements  on  the  premises,  making  together  about 
two  thousand  acres,  be  it  more  or  less." 

(signed)     C.  WASHINGTON. 

Mount  Vernon,  9  July,  1799. 

STATE  OF  VIRGINIA, 

County  of  fairfax  to  wit: 

"I,  F.  W.  Richardson,  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  of 
said  county,  tiie  said  being  a  Court  of  IVobatc  and 
of  record,  and  having  a  seal,  do  hereby  certify  that 
the  foregoing  is  a  true  copy  of  the  last  Will  and 
Testament  of  George  Washington,  deceased,  as  the 
same  appears  of  record  in  the  will  books  of  said 
county  in  Liber  H,  Xo.  1,  folio  1,  and  that  the  orig- 
inal of  said  will  is  now  on  file  in  my  said  otlicc  in 
said  countv. 

"IN  TESTIMONY  of  all  which  I  have  hereunto 
set  my  hand  and  aftixcd  the  seal  of  said  Court  at 
Fairfax,  \'irginia,  this  7th  day  of  February,  A.  D. 
1912. 

(Signed)      F.    W.    KMCHARDSON, 

(SEAL.)  Clerk." 

George  Washington,  who  really  gave  us  the  lib- 
erty which  is  enjoyed  today,  was  most  certainly  not 
a  Prohibitionist.  It  was  Washington  that  made  pos- 
sible a  Lincoln,  and  the  above  gives  absolute  proof 
that  Abraham  Lincoln  was  not  a  Prohibitionist,  and 
moreover,  went  so  far  as  to  stock  a  tavern,  and  to 
obtain  a  license  for  the  sale  of  liquors.  With  these 
facts  before  us,  how  can  the  Anti-Salooti  League 
claim  otherwise? 

SG 


The  fact  that  Lincoln  was  a  temperance  advo- 
cate and  not  a  Prohibitionist  is  substantiated  by  the 
following  quotations  taken  from  the  sayings  and 
speeches  of  the  immortal  President. 

Lincoln   also   was   a   believer  in   "Compensation.** 

In  a  speech  delivered  in  Peoria,  111.,  October  16, 
1854,  in  reply  to  Senator  Douglas  (Nicolay  and  Hay, 
Gettysburg  edition,  Vol.  1,  page  215),  Lincoln  said: 

"Option  of  abolishing  slavery  by  States  within 
their  own  limits.  It  was  frequently  spoken  of  by 
niembers  of  Congress,  and  by  the  citizens  of  Wash- 
ington six  years  ago;  and  I  heard  no  one  express  a 
doubt  that  a  system  of  gradual  emancipation  with 
compensation  to  owners  would  meet  the  approba- 
tion of  a  large  majority  of  the  white  people  of  the 
district." 

''Let  Each  Do  As  He  Pleases." 

Among  his  notes  for  speeches,  October  1,  1858 
(Nicolay  &  Hay,  Volume  IV,  page  231),  Lincoln 
wrote  as  follows: 

"I  am  for  the  people  of  the  whole  nation  doing 
just  as  they  please  in  all  matters  which  concern  the 
whole  nation;  for  that  of  each  part  doing  just  as 
they  choose  in  all  matters  which  concern  no  other 
part;  and  for  each  individual  doing  just  as  he 
chooses  in  all  matters  which  concern  nobody  else." 

In  a  speech  delivered  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  Sep- 
tember 16,  1857  (Nicolay  &  Hay,  Volume  V,  page 
149),  he  said: 

"I  think  a  definition  of  'popular  sovereignty'  in  the 
abstract  would  be  about  this  'that  each  man  shall 
do  precisely  as  he  pleases  with  himself,  and  with 
all  those  things  that  exclusively  concern  him;  that  a 
general  government  shall  do  all  those  things  that 
pertain  to  it,  and  all  the  local  governments  shall 
do  precisely  as  they  please  in  respect  to  those  mat- 
ters which  exclusively  concern  them." 

Whitney  in  his  "Life  on  the  Circuit  with  Lin- 
coln" (page  117),  comments  as  follows: 

"To  Lincoln's  practical  mind  the  business  and 
object  of  an  army  was  to  fight,  and  not  to  review 
intrench  and  organize  as  the  end  in  view.  He 
Avas  always  saying  to  McClellan,  'YOU  MUST 
ACT.'  When  he  found  that  Grant  would  fight  as 
a  fixed  rule  of  action,  that  atoned,  in  his  opinion,  for 
all  his  minor  delinquencies.  Some  philanthropists 
came  to  Lincoln  with  horror  depicted  on  their  coun- 
tenances, while  Grant  was  in  the  wilderness,  to  pro- 
test against  the  appalling  sacrifice  of  life.      Lincoln 


listened  to  their  protests,  but  all  he  would  reply  was, 
with  a^  shrug  of  his  shoulders,  'he  fights/  At  in- 
formation that  Grant  was  drunk  at  an  important  en- 
gagement, having  been  known  to  have  several  jugs 
of  whiskey  at  headquarters,  Lincoln  responded,  'I 
wish  I  could  send  each  of  our  generals  a  jug  of  that 
same  whiskey!' " 

LINCOLN  BOUGHT  BRANDY. 

Here  is  a  copy  of  an  historic  document.  It  is  a 
duplicate  of  an  account  taken  from  a  ledger  former- 
ly kept  by  R.  W.  Dillcr,  who,  during  Abraham  Lin- 
coln's earlier  days,  ran  a  drug  store  at  122  Soutli 
Sixth  Street,  Springfield,  Illinois.  The  instrinsic 
value  of  the  page  is  based  on  the  fact  that  anything 
concerning  the  immortal  statesman  is  regarded  with 
reverence  by  every  citizen  wlio  appreciates  the  doc- 
trine of  personal  rights.  It  has  been  contended  by 
many  that  Mr.  Lincoln  was  a  Prohibitionist,  and 
that  furthermore,  when  he  was  quoted  as  having 
said,  "Proliibition  will  work  great  injury  to  the 
cause  of  Temperance,"  he  was  being  charged  with 
something  wliich  he  did  not  utter. 

In  order  to  prove  the  claiuis  of  the  disciples  of 
Personal  Liberty  and  personal  rights,  that  Mr.  Lin- 
coln not  only  opposed  the  doctrine  of  Prohibition, 
but  that  occasionally  he  even  took  a  drink,  the  Bul- 
letin sent  a  representative  to  the  former  home  city 
of  the  young  Illinois  lawyer,  and  succeeded  in  pro- 
curing a  copy  of  a  running  account  kept  by  Mr. 
Dillcr  against  Abraham  Lincoln.  The  account  as 
it  appears  on  tlie  still  well  preserved  pages  is  as 
follows: 

"Abraham  Lincoln, 
In  account  with: 
R.  \V.  Dillcr, 

122  So.  f)th  Street, 

Springfield,  111.:  ^ 

1853. 

Aug.    4  —  1    Pint    Brand V $0.:.0 

"     12—1        "  "  50 

"     13—1        "  "  50 

Oct.     1—1        "  "          50 

'*       8—2  Quarts     "        

Mr.  Dillcr  is  dead.  His  son,  Isaac  Dillcr,  is  the 
owner  of  the  property.  The  drug  store  has  passed 
on  to  the  hands  of  Wm.  A.  Claypool,  who  sells 
liquor  bv  the  bottle,  and  lots  of  it. 

The  Chicago  Liquor  .Association  oflercd  $1,500  for 
the  account  book,  but  was  refused.     Therefore,  the 


publisher  of  the  Bulletin  takes  pleasure  in  present- 
ing a  fac-simile  of  the  page  to  its  readers  as  a  real 
live  up-to-date  scoop. 

The  item  shows  a  number  of  other  items  pur- 
chased, such  as  paregoric,  tooth  brushes,  bay  rum, 
etc.,  showing  that  Mr.  Lincotn,  like  most  people, 
had  occasion  to  make  frequent  trips  to  the  drug 
store. 

Abraham  Lincoln,  Liberal. 

The  Bulletin's  representative  obtained  added  proof 
of  Mr.  Lincoln's  habit  by  securing  an  affidavit  from 
Manuel  Smith,  who  had  occasion  to  come  in  contact 
with  Mr.  Lincoln  and  his  partner,  Mr.  Herndon. 
This  supplemental  document  carries  a  great  deal  of 
interest.     It  is  as  follows: 

"Springfield,  111.,  Oct.  1,  1915. 

"I,  Manuel  Smith,  of  Harvard  Park  Division, 
Springfield,  111.,  do  hereby  affirm  the  following  to  be 
true  and  accurate  statements: 

That  I  worked  for  fifteen  (15)  years  for  William 
Herndon,  the  former  law  partner  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, who  was  afterwards  President  of  the  United 
States;  that  I  received  as  my  share  for  tilling  Mr. 
Herndon's  land  (%)  two-thirds  of  the  crop  raised, 
and  that  during  those  fifteen  years  I  had  frequent 
conversation  on  diverse  subjects  with  Mr.  Hern- 
don; and  that  on  several  occasions  we  talked  about 
Mr.  Lincoln.  Mr.  Herndon  told  me  many  times 
that  on  frequent  occasions  he  and  Mr.  Lincoln  took 
a  drink  together. 

Signed:  (His) 

Witness  to  mark,  Manuel  (X)  Smith 

John  Hall.  (Mark) 

Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me  this  1st  day  of 
October,  1915. 

James  Reilly, 
Notary  Public." 

It  is  part  of  the  story  that  every  efifort  has  been 
made  to  keep  the  public  from  learning  the  contents 
of  the  old  Diller  account  book.  It  has  been  shown 
only  to  a  few  great  admirers  of  the  immortal  Lin- 
coln. Therefore,  the  Bulletin  in  presenting  a  fac- 
simile of  the  Lincoln  account  congratulates  its  read- 
ers upon  the  fact  that  it  has  established  beyond  any 
doubt  the  truth  that  the  greatest  humanitarian  and 
the  broadest  statesman  the  world  has  produced,  was 
opposed  to  Prohibition  and  knew  by  experience  that 
a  temperate  indulgence  in  the  cup  that  cheers,  can 
\\-ork  no  harm  to  any  person. — Boldt's  Bulletin. 

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HOBSON  DEMANDS  WHISKEY  FOR 
HIS  MEN. 

*'T  DEMAND  whiskey  for  my  men  who  have  long 

*  been  exposed  in  the  water." 

Such  is  the  statement  credited  to  Richard  P. 
Hobson  by  one  of  the  famous  crew  of  seven  that 
sank  the  Merrimac  in  the  Spanish-American  war, 
immediately  after  that  great  exploit. 

Here  is  the  story  as  it  appeared  in  the  New  York 
Herald  of  July  9,  1898. 

With  Admiral  Sampson's  Fleet  of?  Santiago,  Thurs- 
day by  the  Herald  Disi)atch  Boat  Somniers  N. 
Smith,  to  Port  Antonio,  Jamaica,   Friday. 

Every  one  of  tlie  seven  brave  men  who  went  with 
Assistant  Naval  Instructor  Hobson  on  the  Merrimac 
is  loud  in  liis  praise  of  Hobson's  course  during  their 
now  historic  exploit. 

I  had  chats  with  the  members  of  Hobson's  crew 
today  and  they  added  some  interesting  details  to  the 
story  as  I  sent  it  to  the  Herald  from  Hobson's  own 
lips  last  night. 

High  Praise  for  Hobson. 

"No  braver  or  cooler  man  tlian  Hobson  ever 
lived,"  said  Jolin  Kelly.  "If  it  had  not  been  for 
liim  matters  would  have  gone  much  harder  with  us." 

"Yes,"  said  John  I*.  Phillips,  cliiming  in,  "he  is  a 
wonderful  man.  It  is  simply  a  miracle  tliat  all  of 
us  escaped  without  injury.  When  the  Merrimac  ran 
into  the  harbor  Hobson  stood  on  the  bridge,  smiling 
as  he  looked  through  his  glasses  and  saw  how  well 
wc  were  progressing.  He  kept  the  collier  headed 
straight  toward  the  channel  and  never  faltered  when 
bullets  and  shells  came  falling  about  him." 

Whiskey  Immediately  Dcm<mded. 

"Aiul  later  on,  when  we  were  taken  aboard  tlx- 
Kcina  Mercedes,  dressed  only  in  wet  underwear 
which  had  been  cut  ofT  at  the  knees,  Hobson,  a- 
calm  as  ever,  walked  up  to  the  commander  of  tlu- 
Spanish  vessel,  saluted  him  and  said: 

"*I  demand  whiskey  for  my  men  who  have  been 
long  exposed  in  the  water.'  " 

"From  the  Reina  Mercedes,"  Phillips  continues, 
"we  were  sent  to  Moro  Castle  and  kept  in  a  vile 
place.  Our  guards  kept  making  signs  intimating 
that  they  would  hang  us." 

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10,000,000  MOUTHS  TO  FEED. 

'THE     Philadelphia    Sunday    Dispatch,    in    calling 
*    attention  to  the  magnitude  of  the  liquor  industry, 
declares  that  10,000,000  persons  are  dependent  on  it 
for  a  living.     The  Dispatch  asks: 

"Do  you  know  that  the  production  and  distribu- 
tion of  alcoholic  beverages  altogether  give  employ- 
ment directly  to  1,200,000  people,  representing  a 
population  of  6,000,000  out  of  a  total  population  of 
the  United  States  of  98,000,000?  And  if  we  figure 
those  who  would  be  indirectly  affected,  the  number 
employed  would  reach  about  2,000,000,  representing 
a  population  of  about  10,000,000?" 


TRYING  TO  BLOW  OUT  THE  UGHT 


Are  you  in 
sympathy  with 
those  who  are 
trying  to  blow 
out  this  light 
which  has  en- 
lightened the 
world? 


PROHIBITION  IN  KANSAS. 

"MOTWITHSTANDING  the  fact  that  we  have 
^^  had  prohibition  (not  temperance)  for  35  years, 
it  is  still  a  money  maker  for  the  agitators,  local  pro- 
motors  and  Chautauqua  companies  who  conspire  to 
bunco  the  natives.  They  are  expert  and  adroit 
advertisers,  these  Chautauquans.  They  usually  allow 
the  editors  of  papers  published  in  the  county  seat  of 
Kansas  to  get  a  taste  of  the  pie.  The  occasion  is  a 
matter  of  great  importance. 

"They  get  our  money  and  leave  us  absolutely 
nothing.  Hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  an- 
nually have  been  taken  out  of  Kansas  in  the  last  ten 
years  by  this  class  of  hot-air  merchants." — J.  D. 
Flannigan,  former  State  Legislator  and  Sheriff  of 
Decatur   County,   Kansas. 

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GEORGE  WASHINGTON  AND  PROHIBITION. 

ASIDE  from  the  fact  that  George  Washington 
•**■  was  a  distiller,  which  fact  has  been  absolutely- 
proven  by  the  evidence  exliibited  in  his  will,  in 
which  he  bequeathed  his  distillery  to  his  wife,  etc., 
Washington  was  a  lover  and  connoisseur  of  wines. 
He  frequently  referred  to  his  "Madeira,"  which  was 
his  favorite  wine. 

We  can  best  gain  an  idea  of  Washington's  senti- 
ments in  regard  to  the  liquor  question,  by  quoting 
from  statements  which  he  made,  taken  from  the 
writings  of  authors,  who  liave  published  works  con- 
cerning the  life  of  our  first  President. 

In  the  "Writings  of  George  Washington,"  pub- 
lished in  1889,  by  Worthington  Chauncey  Fork,  Vol- 
ume 1,  pages  1  and  2,  there  is  found  in  a  journal  of  a 
Survey,  made  on  Wednesday,  March  16,  1748,  this 
statement: 

"We  set  out  early  and  finished  about  1  o'clock 
and  then  traveled  up  to  Frederick  Town,  where 
our  baggage  came  to  us.     We  cleaned  ourselves 
(to  get  rid  of  ye  game  we  had  catched  ye  night 
before).      I  took  a   review  of  ye  town   and   re- 
turned  to   our   lodgings   where   we   had   a   good 
dinner  prepared  for  us.      Wine  and  Rum  Punch 
in    plenty,    and   a   good    feather   bed    witli    clean 
sliects,  which  was  a  very  agreeable  regale." 
In  Volume  0,  page  302,  in  a  letter  dated  July  13, 
1781,  to  the  Superintendent  of  Finance,  Washington 
first  refers  to  needed  supplies,  and  then  goes  on  to 
say: 

"No  magazines  of  rum  have  been  formed.  We 
have  been  in  a  manner  destitute  of  that  neces- 
sary article,  and  what  we  are  now  likely  to  draw 
from  the  several  States  will  be  from  hand  to 
mouth." 

Rum  for  the  Soldiers  of  '76. 
This    letter   was   written    from    his    Headquarters. 
near  Dobb's  Ferry. 

In  \'olume  9,  page  3.54,  again  writing  to  the  Su- 
perintendent of  Finance,  a  letter  dated  "Chatham, 
August  27,  1781,"  says  in  part: 

"You  will  be  pleased  to  make  the  deposit  of 
flour  rum  and  salt  meat  at  the  Head  of  Klk, 
which  I  requested  in  a  forincr  letter.  I  am  very 
fearful  tliat  about  fifteen  hundred  barrels  of  salt 
provisions  and  thirty  hogsheads  of  rum,  which  1 
directed  to  be  sent  from  Connecticut  and  Rhode 


Island  under  convoy  of  Count  de  Barras,  would 
not  have  been  ready  when  the  fleet  sailed  from 
Newport.  Should  that  have  been  the  case,  the 
disappointment  will  be  great.  I  would  wish  you 
to  see  whether  a  like  quantity  of  those  articles 
can  be  procured  in  Philadelphia  or  in  Maryland, 
if  we  should  find  that  they  have  not  gone  round 
from  the  eastward." 

In  Volume  11,  pages  434  and  437,  in  a  letter  to 
Gouverneur  Morris,  dated  in  "New  York,  October 
13,  1789,"  Washington  says  in  part: 

"Of  plated  ware  may  be  made  I  conceive 
handsome  and  useful  coolers  for  wine  at  and 
after  dinner.  Those  I  am  in  need  of,  viz.:  eight 
double  ones  (for  Madeira  and  Claret,  the  wine 
usually  drank  at  dinner)  each  of  the  apertures 
to  be  sufificient  to  contain  a  pint  decanter,  with 
an  allowance  in  the  depth  of  it  for  ice  at  bottom 
so  as  to  raise  the  neck  of  the  decanter  above 
the  color  between  the  apertures.  A  handle  is 
to  be  placed  by  which  these  double  coolers  may 
with  convenience  be-  removed  from  one  part  of 
the  table  to  another.  For  the  wine  after  dinner, 
four  quadruple  coolers  will  be  necessarv,  each 
aperture  of  which  to  be  of  the  size  of  a  quart 
decanter  or  quart  bottle  for  four  sorts  of  wine 
— these  decanters  or  bottles  to  have  ice  at  bot- 
tom, and  to  be  elevated  thereby  as  above — a 
central  handle  here  also  will  be  wanting. 

"Should  my  description  be  defective,  your 
imagination  is  fertile  and  on  this  I  shall  rely." 

In  Volume  12,  page  233,  in  a  letter  dated  March 
31,  1789,  addressed  to  "George  A.  Washington,"  we 
read  as  follows: 

"As  I  shall  want  shingles,  planks,  nails,  rum 
for  harvest,  scantling,  and  such  like  things, 
which  would  cost  me  money  at  another  time, 
fish  may  be  bartered  for  them." 

No  Objection  to  Distillery. 

In  Volume  13,  in  a  letter  to  "William  Pierce,  on 
August  31,  1794,  on  page  19,"  Washington  writes  as 
follows: 

"I  have  no  objection   to  your  putting  up  the 
still    which    is    at    Mount    Vernon,    if    any    ad- 
vantages  from  it  can   be  derived  under  the  tax 
which  is  laid  upon  it." 
43 


In  Volume  13,  page  442,  a  letter  dated  "Mount 
Vernon,  February  27,  1798,"  to  "William  Augustine," 
Washington  says  in  part: 

"I  make  use  of  no  barley  in  my  distillery  (the 
operations  of  which  are  just  commenced).  Rye 
chiefly  and  Indian  corn,  in  a  certain  proportion 
compose  the  materials  from  which  the  whiskey 
is  made.  The  former  I  buy  @4/6,  for  the  latter 
I  have  not  given  more  than  17/6,  and  latterly 
17/ — delivered  at  the  distillery.  It  has  sold  in 
Alexandria  (in  small  quantities  from  the 
wagons)  at  16/  and  16/6  per  barrel,  but  at  what 
it  goes  now  I  am  unable  to  inform  you.  So  large 
a  quantity  as  you  have  for  sale  may  command  a 
good  price." 

An  unbiased  study  of  the  biographies  and  writ- 
ings of  George  Washington  and  Abraham  Lincoln 
will  lead  to  but  one  concUision,  namely,  tliat  neither 
of  these  two  great  men  were  Prohibitionists.  The 
foregoing  quotations  furnish  ample  proof  of  this 
fact. 


OPINION  OF  CARDINAL  GIBBONS. 

*'T  AM  strongly  opposed  to  any  state-wide  prohi- 
*  bition  bill  being  passed  because  I  believe  sucli 
law  is  impossible  in  enforcement  in  a  city  the  size 
of  Baltimore.  A  law  of  this  kind  interferes  with 
personal  liberty  and  rights,  and  creates  hypocrisy. 
The  history  of  the  world  demonstrates  that  people 
always  have  and  always  will  indulge  in  intoxicating 
liquors.  Such  law  would  deprive  the  state  of  3 
large  revenue  without  accomplishing  results." — • 
Cardinal  Gibbons. 


PROHIBITIONIST'S  INTEMPERANCE. 

THERE  arc  other  forms  of  intemperance  besides 
intemperance    in    the    use   of    liquor.       The    Cin- 
cinnati Enquirer  says: 

"Testifying  in  the  alimony  suit  broup^ht  by  her 
niothcr,  Mrs.  Agnes  F..  Eorsythe,  against  Andrew 
Forsythe,  former  field  manager  for  the  Ohio  Anti- 
Saloon  League,  Miss  NLirgaret  Forsythe,  24  years 
old,  today  related  startling  incidents  of  their  home 
life,  of  her  father  striking  and  abusing  her  mother 
when  store  bills  arrived  and  because  she  burned 
too  much  gas." 

il 


CALLS  WORKERS  MURDERERS. 


/^NE  of  the  most  vicious  attacks  ever  made  on 
^^  organized  labor  occurred  at  the  General  Conven- 
tion of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  a  Prohibi- 
tion organization,  at  Saratoga  Springs,  K.  Y.  The 
attack  was  occasioned  by  the  introduction  of  a  mo- 
tion to  institute  the  "closed  shop"  policy.  The 
motion  was  defeated  by  an  overwhelming  vote. 

Reviewing  the  discussion  that  preceded  the  vote, 
the  Literary  Digest  says: 

"The  high-water  mark  of  the  discussion,  accord- 
ing to  the  reports  in  the  daily  press,  was  reached 
when  a  lay  delegate,  ^Mr,  Francis  A.  Arter,  of  Cleve- 
land, a  capitalist,  said  that  'murder,  robbery,  theft — 
every  crime  in  the  catalogue' — had  been  committed 
by  members  of  the  class  of  workers  with  which  the 
members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  were 
asked  to  align  themselves." 


Part    of    the 

W/jB/K^M 

mHHBHHH 

daily  rations 

H^^H^^^SHM 

served  to  sold- 

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I^M^^^^^^i 

iers    in    Mace- 

'^^■^-^^i-L^^:'_ 

donia. 

J 

HITS  BAKERS  AND  BUTCHERS. 

**T*HE  Prohibitionists  argue  that  if  we  will  destroy 
•'•  the  saloon,  the  brewery,  the  winery,  it  will  only 
be  a  short  time  before  the  employes  in  these  trades 
will  find  jobs  in  other  industries.  They  told  us  in 
Colorado  more  bread  would  be  consumed,  more 
meat  eaten,  and  more  clothes  worn.  Has  this  been 
true?  Colorado  has  answered  the  question.  We 
found  in  organizing  the  unemployed  in  Denver, 
following  the  enactment  of  Prohibition,  there  were 
over  300  bakers  and  more  than  200  butchers  abso- 
lutely without  hope  of  a  job.  The  very  class  Pro- 
hibitionists told  us  would  have  more  work  were 
thrown  out  of  work." — Building  Trades  Council  and 
Unions  of  California. 

45 


ONE   BOY   THAT    PROHIBITION    DID'NT 
SAVE. 

COMETI!MES,  in  reading  the  newspapers,  a  tear 
*^  will  start,  when  one  sees  a  story  of  plain,  un- 
veneered  facts  that  the  "soh  sisters"  have  neglected, 
as  in  the  case  of  this  prosaic  account  in  the  Yolo 
Independent,  published  at  Broderick,  Cal.: 

The  detrimental  effects  of  prohibition  are  forcibly 
shown  in  a  letter  just  received  by  The  Independent 
and  printed  below. 

Alcohol  may  not  be  a  nccessit}^  of  life,  but  there  is 
evidence  that  in  some  cases  it  is  a  very  useful  stimu- 
lant which  may  be  used  to  advantage  by  physicians. 

The  states  of  Oregon,  Washington  and  several 
others  are  cursed  with  prohibition  laws,  prohibition 
that  knows  neither  common  sense  nor  a  sense  of 
justice. 

This  letter,  written  from  the  state  of  Oregon  to 
the  Astor  Wine  Company,  in  }Iorn!)rook,  Cal.,  shows 
to  what  extent  a  fanatical  law  may  go  and  still  be 
supported  by  some  people. 

The  letter  reads: 

Drain,  Ore.,  June  IG,  1016. 
Mr.  J.  W.  Bell,  Astor  Wine  Co,  Hornbrook,  Cal.: 

Dear  Sir — That  order  I  telegraphed  to  you  came 
on  the  expected  train  but  the  agent  wouldn  t  allow 
me  to  take  it  as  my  time  of  1  qt.  was  not  up  until 
the  14th,  and  for  2  qts.  on  the  2Gth,  so  I  was  stuck. 
T  tried  to  get  the  District  Attorney,  Geo.  Ncuner, 
on  the  'phone  that  afternoon,  but  could  not  locate 
him,  as  I  wanted  to  ask  him  if  a  physician  could 
receive  more  than  the  allotted  amount  in  28  days, 
he  being  classed  the  same  as  druggists,  hospitals,  etc. 

I  had  read,  or  thought  I  had,  where  it  stated 
they  could.  Well,  1  saw  Neuner  a  few  days 
later  and  he  told  mc  I  could  receive  alcohol  in 
larger  quantities,  but  not  whiskey.  Now  I  think 
he  n,uist  be  mistaken  and  wish  you  would  look  it 
up  if  you  have  a  copy  of  the  law  handy. 

<L)f  course  I  couldn't  break  the  package  to  take 
the  brandy  out,   or  alcohol   cither,   so   I    was   stung. 

Geo.  Neuner  said  if  I  had  got  hitn  on  the  'phone 
that  afternoon  he  would  have  let  mc  have  the  brandy 
in  a  case  of  sickiiess  like  that  and  he  wouKln't  have 
caused  any  disturbance — but  the  child  died  and  it 
was  too  late  then.  Brandy  seemed  to  be  the  only 
thing  that  would  stimulate  him  and  that  is  why  I 
wanted  it  in  such  a  hurry. 


It  is  still  in  the  express  office  awaiting  the  arrival 
of  the  26th,  and  then  I  don't  know  whether  I'l  take 
it  or  not  as  this  scorching  weather  demands  beer. 
Vet  I'll  probably  get  the  brandy  as  I  want  it  on 
hand  so  I  won't  get  in  such  a  predicament  again. 
Please  look  up  the  law  on  this  matter  of  physicians. 
Very  trulv  vours, 

DR.  H.  A.  CANFIELD. 


HOBSON  AND  YOUR  MONEY. 

'TTTE  National  Monthly  deals  with  the  desires  of 
*  llobson  to  place  his  "great  dry"  speech  in  the 
home  of  every  American.      In  part  the  article  says: 

"We  have  Captain  Hobson's  own  written  word 
for  it  that  he  proposes  to  get  his  speech  into 
16,000,000  homes,  which  includes  about  all  the  Ameri- 
can people,  nearly  100,000,000  in  all. 

It  would  be  a  very  costly  proceeding  to  the  gov- 
ernment of  the  United  States,  mulcting  it  to  the 
tune  of  about  $150,000  for  carrying  the  speech 
through  the  mails. 

In  this  time  of  world  stress  Captain  Tlobson  seeks 
this  $150,000  for  the  sole  and  overpoweringly  im- 
portant purpose  of  feeding  the  minds  of  the  Ameri- 
can people  with  Captain  Hobson's  speech. 

Hobson's  letter  to  the  editors  of  the  United  States 
explains  his  ambitious  plans: 

January  22,  1916. 

Editor   

City. 
Dear  Mr.  Editor: 

I  am  sending  you  under  separate  cover  copy  of 
my  recent  prohibition  speech  'and  also  for  your 
information,  copy  of  standard  individual  letter  to 
accompany  same. 

Heforc  my  right  to  use  the  government  frank 
expires  next  fall  I  wish  to  send  the  speech  and 
letter  individually  to  all  the  homes  of  Americans. 

While  my  part  of  the  cost  is  but  a  fraction  of 
the  total  cost  to  the  government,  yet  covering  the 
whole  country  will  amount  to  about  $150,000. 

Would  you,  through  your  columns,  help  to  raise 
the  fund?  In  order  to  facilitate  your  action  I  am 
enclosing  a  draft  for  a  news  article  which  can  be 
used  as  a  basis  for  editorials. 

Faithfully  vours, 

(Signed)  R.  P.  HOBSON. 

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KANSAS  VERSUS  THE  LICENSE   STATES. 
The  Case  Against  Prohibition  Kansas. 

(NOTE — The  states  referred  to  as  "License 
States"  were  Hcensed  at  the  time  these  reports  were 
made.) 

Mr.  Royal  E.  Cabell,  expert  statistician  and 
former  United  States  Commissioner  of  Internal 
Revenue,  has  made  an  authoritative  analysis  of 
official  records  from  Washington,  D.  C,  showing  the 
position  of  "dry"  Kansas  as  compared  with  the 
license  states. 

Mr.  Cabell's  statistics  are  taken  from  the  1910 
Census  of  the  United  States  Government  and  the 
official  records  are  from  the  Census  Bureau  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

The  States  which  are  referred  to  as  license  States 
had  "license"  laws  at  the  time  when  the  1910  Census 
was  taken.  Therefore,  despite  subsequent  changes 
in  the  law  of  these  States,  it  is  permissible  to  make 
this  comparison  showing  the  social  conditions  in 
"dry"  Kansas  and  the  license  States  in  1910. 

Insanity. 

Kansas  had  172.3  insane  per  100,000  population  in 
state  and  private  hospitals.  Ten  license  states  with 
better  records  were: 

New  Mexico 68.43  Kentucky    155.17 

Wyoming    115.71  Utah   92.43 

Florida 113.20  Texas   104.19 

Louisiana    130.78  S.Dakota 148.96 

Indiana    167.66  Nebraska 167.22 

Pauperism. 

Kansas  had  a  rate  of  43.49  per  100,000  population, 
which  was  greater  than  the  rates  of  the  following 
six  license  states: 

Louisiana    11.33      Florida 27.60 

S.  Dakota 25.00      Minnesota 33.18 

Wyoming    13.57      Texas   32.13 

Divorces. 

The  average  annual  divorce  rate  per  100,000  popu- 
lation from  1898  to  1902  for  Kansas  was  286.  Twenty- 
three  license  states  which  had  smaller  average  di- 
vorce rates  for  this  same  period  were  (per  100,000 
population) : 

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Montana    

22  7 

New    Mexico.  .  .  . 

.  .  .    14.8 

I'lorida 

la  5 

Delaware   

.  .  .    10.4 

Maryland    

.  ..      2.7 

Massachusetts   .  . 

.  .  .    22.4 

Rhode  Island..  .  . 

.  .    11.4 

New  York 

.           7.1 

Rhode  Island 281  Ohio    231 

New  Hampshire  ....  272  Minnesota    161 

Kentucky  237  Massachusetts    124 

Florida    226  Pennsylvania    94 

New  Mexico 193  New  Jersey 60 

Vermont 177  New  York 60 

Louisiana 127  Utah    274 

Maryland    114  Illinois    267 

Delaware    43  Nebraska    226 

Missouri   2S1  Wisconsin    180 

S.  Dakota 270  Connecticut 130 

Michigan    257 

The  percentage  of  divorces  granted  to  wives  for 
cruelty  from  1887  to  1906  for  Kansas  was  24.3. 
Fifteen  license  states  with  a  better  record  were: 

Ohio    22.G 

Kentucky   20.2 

Connecticut    19.8 

Wyoming    15.9 

Utah     12.3 

Louisiana 9,9 

New  Jersey 1.9 

Church  Membership, 

The  percentage  of  church  membership  to  the  total 
population  in  Kansas  was  28.4.  Twenty-eight  license 
states,  having  a  greater  percentage  of  church  mem- 
bership in  proportion  to  the  population,  were: 

New    Afcxico 63.3  Minnesota    41.2 

Massachusetts     51.3  Michigan    38.0 

New    York 43.7  Indiana   34.6 

Vermont    42.0  Maryland     37.1 

New   Jersey 39.0  Florida    35.2 

Illinois   ., 38.:?  Rhode  Island 54.0 

Kentucky   37.0  Connecticut  50.0 

Nevada    35.:?  New    Hampshire...  44.0 

Texas   34.7  Ohio   39.2 

Nebraska    32.4  California 37.1 

lUah    54.6  Delaware    36.6 

Louisiana    50.6  South    Dakota 34.8 

Wisconsin    44.3  Missouri 35.7 

Pennsylvania    43.0  Montana    32.6 

Juvenile  DeHnquents. 
The   rate   of  juvenile   delinquents    in    Kansas   was 
25.68    per    100,000    poi>ulalion.       Nine    license    states 
with  less  juvenile  delinquents  were; 
no 


Louisiana  6.90      Montana 23.51 

Florida 13.06      S.  Dakota 17.75 

Utah 20.81      New  Mexico 5.31 

Texas   4.75      Nebraska  11.17 

Minnesota 18.93 

Murder. 
Kansas  had  11.36  murderers  per  100,000  population. 
The  nineteen  states  that  had  less  homicides  in  pro- 
portion to  the  population  were: 
New  Mexico 3.00      Indiana   9.62 


Massachusetts  ....     4.28 

South  Dakota 6.03 

New  York 6.24 

Nebraska 6.97 

New  Jersey 7.31 

Michigan 7.65 

Delaware    10.00 

IlHnois   11.29 


New  Hampshire. . .  4.40 

Utah   6.21 

Minnesota 6.66 

Pennsylvania 6.99 

Ohio  ' 7.47 

Vermont 7.71 

Connecticut 10.81 

Wisconsin 6.22 

Rhode  Island .'  6.66 

Prisoners  o£  All  Kinds. 

Kansas  had  a  rate  of  90.94  prisoners  of  all  kinds 
per  100,000  population.  Six  license  states  having 
less  prisoners  in  proportion  to  the  population  were: 

Wisconsin 71.88      Nebraska 55.12 

South   Dakota 48.10      Minnesota 77.92 

Ohio 84.13      Illinois 90.78 

Savings  Accounts. 
The  report  of  the  Comptroller  of  the  Currency  giv- 
ing the  number  of  savings  depositors  in  mutual  and 
stock  savings  banks  all  over  the  country  on  June  4, 
1913,  shows  that  Kansas  had  1,148  savings  depositors 
for  each  100,000  of  population.  The  twenty-four 
license  states  having  a  greater  number  of  depositors 
in  proportion  to  the  population  than  Kansas,  were 
(per  100,000): 


Massachusetts 63,411 

Vermont    32,167 

Delaware    16,362 

Louisiana 7,545 

Pennsylvania   6,064 

Wisconsin 3,158 

Nebraska 1,669 

New  Mexico 1,483 

.Montana    1,260 

Connecticut 52,200 

Rhode  Island 25,312 

New  Jersey 12,735 


New  York 32,065 

Minnesota 5,320 

Kentucky 1,819 

Wyoming 1,405 

Indiana 1,219 

New   Hampshire..  .47,581 

California    31,562 

Maryland 20,939 

Utah   12,714 

Michigan 6,452 

Ohio    6,676 

Nevada   1,819 


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HOBSON'S  "2,000  A  DAY." 

P\URING  the  debates,  on  the  floor  of  the  House  of 
*~^  Representatives,  on  the  proposed  Constitutional 
amendment  for  National  Prohibition,  Tuesday,  De- 
cember 22,  1914,  Mr.  Hobson,  the  author  of  the  meas- 
ure, made  some  atrocious  misstatements. 

Chief  among  these  alleged  truths  is  the  statement 
of  Mr.  Hobson  that  "Alcohol  averages  2,000  Amer- 
icans a  day.  Alcohol  kills  fully  730,000  American 
citizens  every  year." 

Remembering  Mr.  Hobson's  statement  of  "2,000" 
deaths  per  day  from  alcohol,  Ave  turn  to  the  1912 
Mortality  Statistics  of  the  United  States  Bureau  of 
the  Census  for  the  authenticity  of  his  figures.  Here 
we  discover  some  remarkable  facts,  which  illuminate 
Mr.  Hobson's  wholesale  prevarications. 

The  registration  area  for  deaths  is  composed  of 
twenty-three  (23)  States,  nineteen  (19)  of  which  arc 
licenses  States  and  four  (4)   Trohibition  States. 

%of 
Population     Total 
Registration  Area  for  deaths,  1912.  .60,427,133         63.2 
Xon-Registration  Area  for  deaths.  .31, r)45, 133  36.8 

Deaths  from  all  causes  in  registration  area.  .  .838,2r.l 
Deaths   from   all   causes  under  five  years   {l^i 

of  total  deaths) 204,679 

Deaths  from  all  causes  over  five  years  of  age. ..633, 612 
Seven-tenths  of  one  per  cent   (.7%)   of  the  entire 
l)Opulation  in  the  United  States  died  in  1912. 

As  no  United  States  statistics  are  available  for  the 
non-registration  area  the  percentage  of  deaths  in  the 
registration  area  may  be  used  to  determine  the  deaths 
in  the  non-registration  States. 
If  seven-tenths  of  one  per  cent   (.7%)  of  the 
population     of     the     non-registration     area 
died  in    1912,    the    number    of    the    deaths 

would  be  about 400,000 

According  to  the  ratio  in  the  registration  area 
about  one-fourth  ('.j)  of  the  total  deaths  are 
of  children  under  five  years  of  age,  which 
in    the    non-registration     States    would    be 

about 100,000 

Total  number  of  deaths  in  the  non-registration 

area  over  five  years  of  age 300,000 

Total   number  of  deaths    in    registration   area 

over  five  years  of  age 633,613 

Total  number  of  deaths  of  persons  over  five 
years  of  age  from  all   causes   for  all   States 

in  the  Union  (1912) 933,612 

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Total  number  of  deaths  from  all  causes  in  the 

United  States  per  day 2,500 

Mr.  Hobson  says  total  number  of  alcoholic 
deaths  in  the  United  States  per  day 2,000 

Total  number  of  deaths  per  day  in  the  United 
States  from  the  one  hundred  and  eighty-eight 
(188)  other  causes  listed  in  Mortality  Stat- 
istics according  to  Mr.  Hobson  would  be 
ONLY  500 

According  to  Mr.  Hobson,  730,000  of  the  933,612 
deaths  in  the  United  States  from  all  causes  are  due 
to  alcoholism. 

On  page  118  of  the  Mortality  Statistics  for  1912 
Ave  find: 

"No  56 — Alcoholism  (acute  and  chronic) 3,183 

We  may  double  this  amount  to  6,000  to  account 
for  possible  alcoholic  deaths  in  the  non-registration 
area.  Even  then  Mr.  Hobson's  figures  gives  724,000 
MORE  deaths  from  alcoholism  than  do  the  statistics 
of  the  United  States  Government. 

This  Is  ONE  instance  of  the  Hobsonian  method, 
but  it  Is  a  good  example  of  his  usual  disregard  for 
truth. 


JOHN  KOREN  ON  PROHIBITION. 

JOHN  KOREN,  discussing  the  Anti-Saloon  League 
'^  cry  for  a  submission  of  National  Prohibition  to 
"the  people  of  the  nation"  through  its  legislatures, 
says: 

"The  transparent  plea  is  made  that  the  people  'of 
the  nation,'  through  Its  legislatures,  should  be  allowed 
to  decide.  In  reality  this  is  an  appeal  for  coercion 
through  a  minority  of  the  population.  For  In  ratify- 
ing a  proposed  amendment  to  the  constitution  the 
votes  of  the  different  state  legislatures  are  equal 
units,  no  matter  how  great  the  disparity  of  the 
population  they  represent. 

"Thus  the  four  least  populous  states  in  the  Union 
would  have  just  as  much  weight  as  the  four  most 
populous,  containing  thirty  times  as  many  inhab- 
itants. A  situation  might  arise  in  which  thirty-six 
legislatures,  representing  less  than  one-half  of  the 
population.  Imposed  their  will  on  twelve  states  rep- 
resenting the  majority.  Yet  we  are  adjured  to  'let 
the  people  decide.'  The  true  implication  is  let 
the  rural  minorities  say  how  the  urban  majorities 
shall  live." 

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THE   INJUSTICE    OF   A   NATIONAL    PROHI- 
BITION AMENDMENT. 

IN  an  interview  in  December,  1914,  former  Gover- 
*  nor  Malcolm  R.  Patterson,  of  Tennessee,  now  an 
Anti-Saloon  League  speaker,  is  quoted  as  follows: 

"We  are  working  for  an  amendment  to  the  Con- 
stitution of  .the  United  States  prohibiting  the  manu- 
facture and  sale  of  alcoholic  beverages.  It  must 
pass  each  House  of  Congress  by  a  two-thirds  vote. 
When  that  occurs  the  amendment  wil'  go  to  the 
Legislatures  of  the  states.  If  three-fourths  of  the 
states  by  their  Legislatures  accept  or  ratify  the 
amendment,  it  will  become  a  part  of  the  organic  law 
of  the  nation.  The  votes  of  36  states  are  necessary 
for  the  ratification  of  the  amendment." 

This  is  the  legal  inethod  of  procedure  to  place  an 
amendment  in  tlie  Constitution  of  the  United  States. 

Later,  however,  in  the  interview,  the  Governor  is 
quoted  as  saying:  "Resides,  if  the  liquor  business 
is  broken  up  by  an  amendment  to  the  Constitution,  it 
will  mean  that  a  large  majority  of  the  voters  of  the 
United  States  have  ordered  that  it  be  broken  up." 

Is  this  true  that  "a  large  majority  of  tlic  voters  of 
tlie  United  States  would  tiicn  have  ordered  the  busi- 
ness broken  up?"  In  the  Governor's  own  words  the 
amendment  goes  to  tiie  "Legislatures  of  the  states" 
and  must  be  ratified  by  a  three-fourths  vote  of  the 
"Legislatures"  of  the  states  before  it  becomes  a  part 
of  the  organic  law. 

Is  the  Legislature  necessarily  synonymous  with 
the  will  of  the  majority  of  the  voters  of  the  states 
it  represents?  How  many  times  does  history  show 
Legislatures  that  took  matters  in  their  own  iiands 
and  took  action  directly  against  tiie  will  of  the  ma- 
jority of  the  voters  that  had  elected  the  Legislature? 

Moreover,  in  the  ratification  of  the  amendment, 
Nevada,  with  81,875  inhabitants,  will  have  just  as 
much  of  a  vote  as  Xew  York  with  9,113,218  inhabi- 
tants, and  it  could  easily  come  to  pass  that  tiic  13 
largest  states,  with  IT), 000, 000  voters,  would  be  out- 
voted by  11,000,000  voters  of  the  36  smaller  states. 

Then  an  amendment  providing  for  National  Tro- 
liibition  might  not  necessarily  be  the  result  of  the 
demands  of  a  "large  majority  of  the  voters  of  the 
United  States." 

There  is  another  injustice  in  the  method  employed 
in  placing  an  amondniont  in  the  United  States  Con- 
stitution.   There  is  no  limit  to  the  time  in  which  the 

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states  may  ratify  an  amendment  after  it  has  been 
submitted  by  Congress. 

If  the  Hobson  Prohibition  amendment,  for  ex- 
ample, should  get  a  two-thirds  vote  in  both  Houses 
of  Congress,  there  would  be  no  question  but  that  it 
would  some  time  catch  a  majority  vote  in  the  Legis- 
latures of  three-fourths  of  the  states.  The  pro- 
ponents of  the  project  could  keep  pushing  their 
cause,  year  after  year,  until  that  result  had  been 
reached,  all  favorable  votes  counting  toward  ratifi- 
cation, while  unfavorable  votes  meant  merely  a  post- 
ponement of  the  question.  And  the  situation  is  the 
same  with  other  projected  changes. 

A  National  Prohibition  Amendment  made  law  by 
the  above  unfair,  unjust  and  un-American  process 
would  never  receive  the  endorsement  or  support  of 
the  American  people. 


GOING   OUT* 


In  1916,  Ver- 
mont defeated 
prohibition  by  a 
two  to  one  vote. 


'A  SCAB-ENCOURAGING  INSTITUTION." 

QUERIES  the  Baltimore  Labor  Leader: 
Anti-Saloon  League  spell-binders  seldom  al- 
low a  chance  to  pass  without  advising  their  auditors 
that  the  Anti-Saloon  League  is  so  much  in  love  with 
the  workingmen  of  America  that  they  want  to  save 
them  from  their  alleged  dire  effects  of  the  open 
legalized  saloon.  We  have  often  wondered  why 
"The  Church  in  Action"  never  took  a  day  off  and 
endeavored  to  influence  the  Methodist  Book  Con- 
cern to  unionize  its  printing  plant,  which  has  been 
for  years  a  scab-encouraging  institution? 
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WHO  WILL  MAKE  UP  THIS  DEFICIT? 

Customs  and   Internal   Revenue   Collected   on   Dis- 
tilled Spirits,  Wines  and  Malt  Liquors  with  Total 
National     Revenue     and     Percentage — Year 
Ending  June  30,  1916. 

(Sources:  Customs  revenue  from  annual  report  on 
Commerce  and  Navigation.  Bureau  of  Foreign  and 
Domestic  Commerce,  Department  of  Commerce; 
Internal  Revenue  from  reports  of  the  Commissioner 
of  Internal  Revenue,  Treasury  Department.) 

Customs  Revenue;  1916. 

From  malt  Hquors $      782,009 

From  wine 4,825,346 

From  distilled   spirits 9,678,488 

Total  $15,285,903 

Internal  Revenue,  Other  than  Special  Taxes: 

From  malt  liquor $  87,875,072 

From  distilled  spirits  and  wine 153,457,990 

Total $241,333,668 

Special  Taxes: 

For   the    manufacture   of  malt    liquors 

and  distilled  spirits $    426,458.22 

For  tlie  sale  of  malt  liquor  and  dis- 
tilled spirits    5, 693,410. 32 

Total   $6,119,874.54 

Total  Internal  Revenue: 

From   alcoholic   beverages $247,453,542.54 

Total  Internal  Revenue  and  Customs  Receipts: 

From  alcoholic   beverages $262,739,445.54 

Total  National  Ordinary  Receipts: 

From  all  sources $779,664,552.49 

The  liquor  industry,  then,  paid  into  the  Treasury 
of  the  National  Government  for  the  fiscal  vcar  1910, 
$262,739,445.54,  which  is  over  one-third  of  the  $779.- 
004,552.49,  which  represents  the  total  ordinary  re- 
ceipts of  the  United  States  Treasury  from  all  sources 
for  the  same  year. 

The  total  revenue  received  by  the  various  states 
of  the  Union  in  1«»15,  in  the  form  of  liquor  licenses, 
was  $20,799,071.00. 


The  total  revenue  received  by  the  various  counties 
of  the  Union  in  1913  (the  latest  figures  available)  in 
the  form  of  liquor  licenses  was  $6,600,010. 

The  total  revenue  received  by  cities  having  a  popu- 
lation of  2,500  and  over  in  1913  (the  latest  figures 
available)  was  $51,955,001.00. 

The  total  amount  paid  into  the  National  Treasury; 
the  state,  county  and  municipal  treasuries,  was  $342,- 
093,527.54. 

This  is  the  revenue  that  the  Anti-Saloon  League 
wishes  to  destroy. 

SAVINGS  ACCOUNTS— U.  S.  CENSUS,  1910. 

The  Tables  Which  Follow  Compare   Social   Condi- 
tions in  "Wet"  and  "Dry"  States. 

The  average  savings  of  each  depositor  in  the 
savings  banks  of  the  United  States  is  $439.07.  A 
comparison  of  seven  "dry"  states  and  seven  "wet" 
states. 


Prohibition  States. 

Kansas  $231.69 

West   Virginia 168.01 

North  CaroHna. .  .    171.56 

Georgia    239.54 

Mississippi 280.97 

Tennessee 262.27 

North  Dakota 207^5 

Average     for     7 

"dry"  states $223.03 


License  States. 
New  Hampshire.  .$468.18 

Rhode  Island 544.93 

New  York 545.90 

California 523.48 

Nevada 781.39 

Ohio   356.78 

Pennsylvania   ....   423.17 
Average     for    7 


"wet"  states $520.54 

LABOR. 

Special  Bulletin  on  Alanufacture,  U.  S.  Census — 
Wage  Earners — per  cent  of  distribution.  United 
States  100%.  A  comparison  of  9  "dry"  and  9  'Svet" 
states. 

Prohibition 
States 


Per  Cent  of 
Distribution 

Kansas 0.7 

North  Carolina 1.8 

Georgia 1.6 

Tennessee 1.1 

Maine 1.2 

West  Virginia 1.0 

Oklahoma 0.2 

North  Dakota 0.1 

Mississippi 0^ 

Average  per  cent  for 

9  "dry"  states 0.9 


Lisence  Per  Cent  of 

States  Distribution 

New  York 15.2 

Pennsylvania   13.3 

Massachusetts 8.8 

Ohio   6.8 

New  Jersey 4.9 

Illinois   7.0 

Wisconsin 2.8 

Indiana   2.8 

Connecticut 3^ 

Average  per  cent  for 
9  "wet"  states 7.3 


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ILLITERACY. 

United  States  Statistical  Abstract  1915,  Page  59, 
Table  36 — "Illiterate  persons  10  years  of  aeje  and 
over,  1910." — Percentages.  A  comparison  of  seven 
"dry"  and  seven  "wet"  states. 

Per  Cent  of  Per  Cent  of 

Prohibition  Illiterate  License  Illiterate 

States  Population         States  Population 

Georgia    20.7  California    3.7 

Maine 4.1  Illinois   3.7 

Mississippi    22.4  Indiana   3.1 

North   Carolina 18.5  Minnesota 3.0 

Oklahoma 5.6  Ohio   3.2 

Tennessee 13.6  Vermont    3.7 

West  Virginia 8.3  Wisconsin 3.2 

Average  per  cent  of             Average  per  cent  of 
7  "dry"  states 13.3  7  "wet"  states 3.3 

NOTE — Percentage  of  illiterates  in  other  "wet" 
states  follows:  Connecticut,  6.0;  Massachusetts,  5.2; 
Missouri,  4.3;  Nevada,  6.7;  New  Hampshire,  4.6; 
New  Jersey,  5.6;  Xcw  York,  5.5;  Pennsylvania,  5.9. 

PAUPERS. 

United  States  Statistical  Abstract  1915,  Page  54. 
Table  31 — "Paupers  Enumerated  in  Almshouses 
1910." — Number  per  100,000  population.  A  compari- 
son of  six  "dry"  and  six  "wet"  states. 

No.  of  No.  of 

Prohibition  Papers  per         License  Paupers  per 

States  100.000  Pop.         States  100,000  Pop. 

Georgia 31.2  Florida 27.5 

Kansas 43.5  Louisiana  11.3 

Maine 127.3  Utah   48.5 

North  Carolina 63.0  Texas   22.1 

Tennessee 71.8  Wyoming  13.0 

West  Virginia 66.3  Minnesota 33.1 

Average  number  for                Average  number  for 
6  "dry"  states 67.1  6  "wet"  states 25.0 

CHURCH  MEMBERS— U.  S.  CENSUS,  1906. 

Percentage    of    the    Population    Listed    as    Church 
Members. 
Prohibition   States.  License  States. 

Kansas 28.4%      New  York 43.7% 

Maine   29.8%       Massachusetts   51.3% 

West  Virginia 28.07c      Rhode  Island 54.0% 

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Some  of  the  other  license  states  that  outrank  the 
prohibition  states  in  church  membership  by  far,  are 
Illinois  38.3%;  Ohio  39.3%;  Wisconsin  44.3%;  Lou- 
siana  50.6%;  California  31.1.% 


BUILDING  AND  LOAN  ASSOCIATIONS. 

United  States  Statistical  Abstract  1915,  Page  572, 
Table  No.  320 — "Building  and  Loan  Associations." — 
Number  and  assets  1914.  A  comparison  of  seven 
"dry"  and  seven  "wet"  states. 


Prohfbition 
States 


Assets  in 
No.  of  Millions 
Ass'ns   of  Dollars 


Kansas    61  18 

Maine 37  5 

N.  Carolina.  .  .138  12 

N.  Dakota 9  2 

Oklahoma  ....  33  1 

Tennessee  ....  14  3 

W.  Virginia. .  .  41  6 


Assets  in 
No.  of  Millions 
Ass'ns   of  Dollars 

.  93  29 

.  608  90 

.  341  56 

.  707  132 

.  245  68 

.  656  240 

Pennsylvania.  1765  255 


License 
States 

California  . . 

Illinois   

Indiana 

New  Jersey. 
New  York.  . 
Ohio  


333 


47 


4415 


870 


INSANITY. 

United  States  Statistical  Abstract  for  1915,  Page 
56,  Table  33 — "Insane  Enumerated  in  Hospitals  in 
1910,"  per  100,000  population.  A  comparison  of  six 
"dry"  and  six  "wet"  states. 

No.  of  No.  of 

Prohibition  Insane  per  License  Insane  per 

States  100,000  Pop.         States  100,000  Pop. 

Georgia    120.0      Texas   104.0 


Kansas   172.3 

Maine    169.5 

Mississippi 110.1 

North  Carolina 114.3 

West  Virginia 141.0 

Average  for  6  "dry" 
states  137.8 


Indiana   167.6 

Louisiana  130.3 

Utah   91.6 

Florida    112.8 

Wyoming 111.0 

Average  for  6  "wet" 
states  119.5 


DIVORCES. 

United  States  Statistical  Abstracts  for  1913,  Page 
83,  Table  55 — "Divorces  per  100,000  of  married 
population  1900."  A  comparison  of  nine  "dry"  md 
nine  "wet"  states. 

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Number  per 
Prohibition  100,000 

States  Population 

Georgia 78 

Kansas 286 

Maine 282 

Mississippi 225 

North  Carolina 75 

North  Dakota 268 

Oklahoma  346 

Tennessee  261 

West  Virginia 183 

Average  number  for  9 
"dry"  states 222 


Number  per 
Licertse  100.000 

States  Population 

Connecticut  130 

Delaware    43 

Louisiana  127 

Maryland   114 

Minnesota 161 

New  Jersey 60 

New  York 60 

Pennsylvania    94 

Massachusetts 124 

Average  number  for  9 
"wet"  states 101 


PRISONERS. 

United  States  Statistical  Abstract  for  1915,  Page 
55,  Table  32 — "Sentences  Prisoners  in  Penal  Institu- 
tions in  1910,"  per  100,000  population.  A  comparison 
of  six  "dry"  and  six  "wet"  states. 


No.  of 
Prohibition  Prisoners  per 

States  100,000  Pop. 

Georgia    191.4 

Maine    98.3 

Mississippi    127.0 

Oklahoma 101.1 

Tennessee    125.7 

West    Virginia 119.8 

Average  for  6  "dry" 
states    127.2 


No.  of 
License  Prisoners  per 

SUtes  100,000  Pop. 

Pennsylvania 106.7 

Illinois    90.6 

Texas 108.5 

Wisconsin   71.8 

Minnesota    77.7 

Ohio  84.0 

Average  for  6  "wet" 
States    89.9 


I  am  a  doctor  of  medicine  by  profession. 
The  Hobson  resolution  begins  with  the  state- 
ment that  "exact  scientific  research  has  dem- 
onstrated that  alcohol  is  a  narcotic  poison." 
As  a  physician,  I  state  that  this  is  either  a 
play  on  words  or  an  outright  misstatement. 
In  either  event  it  is  misleading,  and  flies  in 
the  face  of  medical  practice  and  physiological 
science.  — REPRESENTATIVE  ANDREW 
J.  BARCHFELD,  of  Pennsylvania. 


o 


DRINKING  NATIONS  LEAD  AND  HAVE  LED 
THE   WORLD. 

History  Proves  that  the  Anglo-Saxons,  Teutons  and 
Latins,   All   Drinking  Races,   are   Virile,   Brave, 
Intelligent,  While  Dry   Chinese   and   Turks 
Have  Retrograded. 

T^HAT  the  "wet"  races  have  ever  led  the  world  in 
*■  civilization  is  the  subject  of  a  feature  article  in 
the  Baltimore  Evening  Sun.  Among  other  things 
the  writer  says: 

Why,  I  wonder,  do  the  opponents  of  that  cham- 
pion, Prohibition,  always  base  their  arguments  on 
the  claim  that  prohibition  doesn't  prohibit? 

The  claim  is,  of  course,  true,  for  prohibition  under 
present  conditions,  is  a  joke,  and  worse  besides;  but 
in  making  that  fact  their  leading  argument  they  beg 
the  question  at  the  start  and  play  into  the  hands 
of  the  Andersons,  the  Hares,  the  Bryans,  and  other 
such  "wise  guys,"  and  the  asses  who  put  up  the 
coin  for  these. 

For  if  the  "Rum  Demon"  were  one-hundredth  part 
the  devouring  monster  that  the  fanatics  claim,  a 
way  could  be  and  ought  to  be  found  to  end  forever 
its  career — in  fact,  would  have  been  found  long,  long 
ere  this. 

If  one-tenth  of  the  nonsense  and  "statistics"  talked 
by  the  prohibitionists  were  true,  we  should  all  be 
maniacs,  imbeciles,  degenerates  and  weaklings — such 
of  US  as  might  be  left. 

If  One-Tenth  Were  True? 

If  ^  one-tenth  of  the  ^  rubbish — so-called  expert 
medical  opinion — which  is  dinned  into  the  ears  of 
children  in  the  public  schools  by  the  old  maid 
teachers  were  really  true,  the  "rum-soaked"  Slavs, 
Teutons,  Latins  and  Anglo-Saxons  would  neces- 
sarily have  perished  from  the  earth  through  physical 
and  mental  degeneracy. 

If,  as  is  taught,  alcohol  causes  frightful  diseases 
of  the  body  and  mind,  which  are  passed  on  to  the 
children  by  heredity;  if  the  offspring  of  drunkards 
were  imbeciles  and  dipsomaniacs  and  the  like,  then 
the  Indo-European  races  never  could  have  survived 
thousands  of  years  of  alcoholic  indulgence.  They 
necessarily  would  have  become  teetotalers  or  must 
have  perished,  and  today  all  Europe  and  America 
would  be  inhabited  by  those  prohibitionists  par  ex- 
cellence, the  engaging  Turks,  Kurds  and  Arabs. 

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Prohibition   Dangerous. 

I  oppose  prohibition,  not  because  it  is  difficult 
of  enforcement,  but  because  it  would  be  dangerous 
to  the  progress  and  welfare  of  any  people  to  enforce  it. 

I  maintain  that,  instead  of  being  a  curse,  alcohol 
is  the  handmaiden  of  intellectual  and  material  pro- 
gress, and  that  liistory  abundantly  proves  it. 

I  contend  that  the  races  that  have  brought  the 
world  up  from  barbarism  to  civilization  and  lead 
the  world  today  are  "rum-soaked,"  as  the  prohibi- 
tionists are  so  fond  of  saying.  Not  only  so,  but 
races  are  vigorous  in  body  and  virile  in  mind  almost 
in  the  ratio  that  they  consume  alcohol.  Millions  of 
the  earth's  inhabitants  never  touch  alcohol,  such  as 
the  great  bulk  of  the  Chinese,  the  East  Indians,  the 
Arabs  and  the  Mohammedans  of  all  kinds.  Show 
me  such  and  I  will  show  you  a  people  standing  still 
or  sliding  backward  in  the  evolution  of  humanity. 
All  history  teaches  the  same  loson. 

Wets  and  Drys  in  History. 

Wine-drinking  Greece  and  Rome  have  left  their 
imperishable  imprint  upon  the  thought,  the  art,  the 
literature,  the  government,  of  all  time  as  no  other 
nations  have  ever  done. 

Later,  when  Europe  had  slumped  backward  into 
ignorance  and  superstition,  came  the  wineless  hosts 
of  Mohammed  and  attempted  to  conquer  the  de- 
graded, "rum-soaked"  Europeans,  constantly  at  war 
among  themselves.  Surely,  if  total  abstinence  ever 
had  a  golden  opportunity  to  show  its  vast  superi- 
ority over  drunkenness,  that  was  the  time.  Yet  the 
"rummies"  of  Charles  Martcl  and  Charlemagne 
drove  back  the  water  drinkers.  When  the  royster- 
ing  Spaniards  landed  in  Mexico  and  Peru  they  met 
l)eoplcs  well  along  in  civilization  for  that  period, 
i)Ut  without,  if  I  remember  correctly,  the  alcohol- 
drinking  habit.  Which  proved  the  more  virile,  brave 
and  intelligent i^     Ask  history. 

Wet  Pilgrims  vs.  Dry  Indians. 
When  the  Mayflower  landed  at  Plymouth  Rock 
its  ]>ious  travelers,  carrying  their  bottle  of  booze 
ashore  with  their  liousohold  efTccts,  ran  afoul  of  a 
husky,  warlike  red  race  of  teetotalers.  How  long 
did  the  water-drinkers  keep  their  land  from  the 
Pilgrims,  whose  descendants  were  the  guys  who  put 
"make"  in  Jamaica  rum,  and  who  at  last  accounts 
were  still  able  to  match  muscles  or  wits  with  any 
total  abstainers  whatever,  at  a  ratio  of  about  tivc  to  one? 


The  old  South  before  the  Civil  War  produced 
statesmen,  thinkers,  soldiers,  men  of  learning  and 
Avomen  of  culture,  courage  and  refinement.  Physi- 
cally and  mentally  the  Southerners  were  unexcelled, 
Avhereas  they  should  have  been  idiots  and  weaklings, 
according  to  the  affecting  philosophy  taught  in  our 
public  schools  through  the  brow-beating  of  our 
pious  prohibitionists,  for  was  not  a  decanter  on 
every  sideboard,  a  "still"  on  nearly  every  farm, 
everybody  drinking  as  a  matter  of  course,  and  nearly 
everybody  descended  from  the  "souses"  of  Great 
Britain?  _       .       .^   ., , 

Empire  Builders  Wet. 

Whence  came  the  bold  and  gallant  rovers  that 
built  the  British  Empire;  that  found  America  and 
made  it  their  own;  that  have  girdled  the  earth  and 
taken  what  they  desired;  that  fought  their  way  to 
the  Poles? 

Whence  came  the  men  who  have  led  the  world 
in  science,  in  art,  in  government,  in  learning,  for  a 
thousand  years — who  tame  the  lightning  and  make 
it  their  servant,  who  talk  across  vast  oceans,  who 
fly  like  birds  and  travel  under  the  sea? 

Do  these  w^orkers  of  wonders  come  from  the 
water-drinkers  of  the  world?  I  trow  not.  Almost, 
if  not  quite,  without  exception,  they  spring  from 
nations  "rum-soaked"  for  centuries. 

Consider,  if  you  please,  the  Germans — huge  eaters 
and  drinkers!  Has  anybody  noticed  any  lack  of 
physical  or  mental  vigor  after  their  age-old  debauch 
as  a  race?     I  trow  not. 

'^.irile  Races  Need  Alcohol." 

Kow,  there  must  be  a  reason  for  all  this.  It 
could  not  be  merely  coincidental  that  all  the  argu- 
ments of  the  prohibitionists  are  made  absurd  and 
ridiculous  by  the  facts  of  history. 

I  am  far  from  saying  that  alcohol  would  make 
every  race  progressive.  On  the  contrary,  it  prob- 
ably hastens  the  extinction  of  the  people  incapable 
of  development  and  progress — e.  g.,  the  American 
Indian  and  the  Kongo  savage.  But  the  virile  races 
need  alcohol,  and,  needing  it,  they  use  it.  If  it 
A\  ere  bad  for  them,  these  conquerors  of  the  world 
and  of  the  secrets  of  nature,  the  peoples  who  lead 
the  world  now  and  have  led  it  in  the  past  in  pro- 
gress, civilization  and  Christianity,  would  either 
have  discarded  it  long  ago  or  it  would  have  made 
them  serfs  and  weaklings  and  degenerates  instead 
of  masters  and  dealers. 


LIQUOR  AND   CRIME. 

pOBERT  BLACKWOOD,  wHtmg  in  the  "Forum," 
*^  exposes  as  an  absolute  fallacy  the  prohibition 
claim  that  liquor  is  the  source  of  crime.  The  follow- 
ing paragraphs  are  excerpts  from  the  article: 

The  man  of  weak  will  or  crooked  tendencies  who 
violates  the  laws  that  society  has  made  for  its  pro- 
tection, hopes  to  create  sympathy  by  saying,  "I  was 
not  to  blame;  drink  weakened  my  will  and  led  me 
to  commit  this  crime." 

When  it  was  found  that  credulous  juries  and 
judges  were  inclined  to  look  upon  a  criminal's 
drinking  habits  as  a  reason  for  leniency,  the  plea 
became  highly  popular,  so  that  in  course  of  time  it 
became  the  customary  thing  for  a  prison  ;r  to  say, 
"I  was  drunk,"  or  "drink  made  me  a  criminal." 
The  concensus  of  opinion  among  criminologists  is 
that  the  chief  causes  of  crime  are:  defective  men- 
tality; inherited  weakness  of  will;  malnutrition 
(insufficient  or  improper  feeding  in  childhood);  lack 
of  proper  moral  training  in  youth;  unwise  selection 
by  parents  of  unsuitable  trades  or  vocation;  and 
very  largely,  to  poverty. 

The  claim  that  liquor  drinking  is  the  cause  of 
seventy  or  ninety  per  cent  of  crime  is  clearly  dis- 
proved by  a  brief  examination  of  tlic  more  serious 
offenses  against  the  laws.  There  are  no  complete 
statistics  on  tliis  subject  for  the  whole  country,  but 
those  of  New  York  State,  with  its  10,000,000  popula- 
tion, may  be  regarded  as  fairly  representative.  The 
report  of  the  State  Commissioner*  of  Prisons  for 
1914,  pages  949-496,  gives  the  following  record  oi 
admission*  to  all  the  state  prisons  for  that  year: 

Total  number  of  prisoners  admitted,  3,368. 

Males,  3,327;  females,  41. 

Convicted  of  abandonment 24 

"    abduction 32 

"          "    arson   47 

"           "    bigamy    2.') 

"          "    burglary  (various  degrees) 780 

"  "    carrying  concealed   and   dangerous 

weapons   7 127 

"           "    extortion    23 

"          "    forgery    10«> 

"           "    grand  larceny  (various  degrees)...  6.*>S 

"           "    receiving  stolen  property 100 

"          "    robbery  (various  degrees)  :^M 

«4 


These  offenses  constitute  nearly  seventy  per  cent 
of  the  total  number.  It  will  not  be  seriously  pre- 
tended that  any  considerable  proportion  of  them  are 
due  to  the  use  of  liquor  or  committed  while  under 
the  influence  of  liquor.  Men  do  not  engage  in 
burglary  while  drunk.  It  is  impossible  to  conceive 
of  men  planning  to  commit  forgery  or  grand  larceny 
while  intoxicated.  Drink  has  no  relation  to  the 
carrying  of  concealed  weapons,  nor  is  it  responsible 
for  receivers  of  stolen  property. 

Mr.  Blackwood  then  compares  crime  in  "wet"  and 
"dry"  states,  and  shows  by  government  figures  that 
there  is  more  crime  in  "dry"  states  than  there  is  in 
"wet."     He  closes  his  article  as  follows: 

No  sensible  person  claims  that  liquor  drinking 
diminished  crime  in  these  "wet"  states,  yet  it  would 
be  just  as  reasonable  as  the  assertion  that  prohibi- 
tion decreased  crime  in  the  "dry"  states.  Two  facts 
are  clearly  established  by  these  statistics:  that  the 
use  of  liquor  is  not  a  material  factor  in  the  causation 
of  crime,  and  that  prohibition  would  not  in  any 
degree  lessen  the  number  of  criminal  acts. 


"SAVE  THE  BOY!" 

'T'HE  boy  is  the  most  pathetic  victim  of  Prohibi- 
■*■  tion.  This  is  at  least  the  experience  of  Trinidad, 
Colo.  The  following  appeared  in  the  Trinidad 
Chronicle  News: 

"Is  Prohibition  prohibiting  in  Colorado? 

"Drunkenness  and  the  use  of  liqiTor  is  steadily 
increasing.  Trinidad  police  records  show  twice  as 
many  arrests  for  drunkenness  this  month  than  April 
last  year,  when  the  saloons  were  open.  It  is  stated 
that  the  young  boys  are  using  liquor  more  freely." 
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LABOR  OPPOSES  PROHIBITION. 

D  EALIZING  the  failure  of  Prohibition  as  an  aid 
*^  to  real  temperance,  and  conscious  that  dry 
legislation  is  a  detriment  to  the  worker,  throwing 
hundreds  and  thousands  out  of  employment,  labor 
organizations  in  all  parts  of  the  country  have  re- 
peatedly gone  on  record  as  opposed  to  any  such 
laws.  Their  journals  have  consistently  fought  this 
propaganda,  and  their  leaders  have  openly  arraigned 
themselves  on  the  wet  side  of  the  controversy. 

A  few  of  the  Labor  Unions  which  have  within  the 
past  year  passed  resolutions  condemning  Prohibi- 
tion, are: 

The  Pennsylvania  State  Federation  of  Labor. 
The   New  Jersey   Council  of   United    Brotherhood 
Carpenters  and  Joiners. 

Convention  of  Labor  Editors  at  St.  Louis. 

?kIontana  State  Federation  of  Labor. 

San  Francisco  Labor  Council. 

American  Federation  of  Musicians. 

Detroit  Federation  of  Labor. 

Massachusetts  State  Federation  of  Labor. 

Michigan  State  Federation  of  Labor. 

Building  Trades  Council  and  Unions  of  California. 

Baltimore  Federation  of  Labor. 

The  resolution  adopted  by  the  Baltimore  Federa- 
tion of  Labor  was  also  endorsed  by  the  building 
trades,  steam  fitters  and  helpers,  cigarmakers,  gran- 
ite cutters,  hoisting  portable  engineers,  boiler. /-akcrs 
and  iron  ship  builders,  bottlers,  cap,  cork  and  stopper 
workers,  sheet  metal  workers,  paper  hangers  and 
decorators,  structural  iron  workers,  painters,  cloth- 
ing cutters,  tinners  and  plumbers  of  Baltimore. 


REJECTED  BY  ALL  PARTIES. 

THE  one  great  issue— prohibition— that  has  made 
the  most  noise  in  \\'ashington  in  tiie  last  two 
years,  was  not  mentioned  in  the  platforms  of  any  of 
the  political  parties  at  their  national  conventions. 

The  Democratic,  Progressive  and  Republican 
parties  refused  to  let  dry  planks  be  placed  in  their 
platforms,  or  to  even  countenance  any  suggestion  of 
prohibition.  In  only  one  convention— tiic  IVo- 
gressive — did  the  question  reach  tlic  floor,  and  there 
it  was  defeated  by  a  vote  of  '.  to  1. 
r.o 


DRY  "LEADERS"  BAD  AMERICANS. 

IN"  an  editorial  entitled  "Bad  Americans,"  the 
Chicago  Tribune  observes: 

Prohibition  leaders  have  begun  a  campaign  which 
is  dangerous  to  the  safety  of  the  country  and  utterly 
discreditable  to  themselves.  The  plan  is  to  pledge 
5,000,000  voters  to  vote  against  any  party  and  any 
candidate  who  does  not  openly  favor  national  pro- 
hibition, regardless  of  his  views  on  national  defense, 
on  foreign  policy,  and  on  industrial  preparedness. 

"The  nation-wide  movement  for  national  prohibi- 
tion," reads  a  statement  issued  by  the  committee  of 
sixty,  "furthered  by  the  effort  to  secure  5,000,000 
voters  to  pledge  themselves  to  vote  only  for  such 
party  and  candidates  as  stand  committed  by  state 
and  national  platform  declaration  to  the  overthrow 
of  the  liquor  trafific,  is  beginning  in  its  sweep  through 
the  country." 

This  statement  means  that  5,000,000  voters  will 
be  asked  to  sacrifice  every  issue,  however  pressing 
and  however  necessary  to  the  national  safety,  to 
the  one  issue  of  forcing  prohibition  on  this  country. 
The  seriousness  of  such  a  pledge  may  be  gauged 
today  when  we  think  what  it  might  have  meant  in 
1860  and  1864.  Such  tactics  might  have  led  5,000,000 
voters  to  vote  for  disunion  and  for  a  continuance  of 
human  slavery. 

Perhaps  the  issues  of  this  campaign  are  not  so 
vital  as  those  of  1861.  They  are  certainly  not  much 
less  vital.  Prohibition  leaders  are  proposing  to  knife 
any  candidate,  however  sound  his  stand  on  the  fund- 
amental issues  before  this  country,  if  he  does  not 
agree  with  them. 

Would  they  vote  for  a  candidate  whose  platform 
called  for  war  with  Germany  or  war  with  England 
just  because  he  showed  himself  willing  to  fight  the 
"liquor  traffic"  also?  Would  they  vote  for  a  candi- 
date whose  two  desires  were  unlimited  immigration 
of  orientals  and  prohibition?  That  is  what  such  a 
pledge  might  easily  mean. 

It  is  asserted  that  5,000,000  people  in  this  country 
believe  that  all  intoxicants  should  be  proliibited. 
There  are  at  those  figures  about  95,000,000  who  do 
not  believe  with  them. 

If  these  5,000,000  are  serious  they  will  continue  to 
devote  themselves  to  education,  to  persuasion  of  the 
other  95,000,000.  Until  they  have  educated  the 
majority  and  more,  legislation  against  intoxicants 
will  be  futile  because  it  will  not  be  enforced.  Legis- 
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lation  against  liquor  is  not  enforced  now.  Where 
most  people  see  no  wrong  in  drinking  and  no  harm 
in  drinking,  laws  will  not  prevent  drinking. 


WHO  FOOTS  "DRY"  BILLS? 

pVERY  year  the  Anti-Saloon  League  of  America 
■'-'  spends  at  least  a  million  and  a  half  dollars. 
Where  does  this  money  come  from?  From  the 
friends  of  labor,  or  from  its  enemies?  The  follow- 
ing statement  from  fonner  Representative  Warren 
Worth  Bailey,  of  Pennsylvania,  may  serve  to  throw 
some  light  on  the  subject: 

"I  say  I  do  not  know  w^hence  all  this  sudden 
clamor  has  come.  But  let  me  state  right  here, 
that  if  I  were  as  deeply  interested  as  a  Rockefeller, 
a  Frick,  a  Morgan,  a  Weyerhaeuser,  or  a  Have- 
mcycr  in  the  maintenance  of  tilings  as  they  are,  I 
should  not  discourage  this  propaganda.  I  should 
be  more  than  willing  to  contribute  liberally  in  pro- 
moting it." 

The  same  line  of  thought  is  found  in  an  editorial 
in  tlie  New  Orleans  Labor  Record: 

"Yoli  know  that  the  lowest  wages  in  the  world 
are  paid  in  those  countries,  like  Ciiina  and  India, 
where  intoxicating  liquors  are  imknown. 

"You  know  that  the  Prohibition  agitation  is  en- 
couraged and  supported  by  those  who  wish  to  side- 
track the  great  organized  movement  for  the  better- 
ment of  labor  conditions, 

"You  know  that  if  the  Prohibition  advocates  suc- 
ceed in  convincing  the  people  of  the  United  States 
that  the  evils  of  which  you  complain  are  due  to 
intemperance  in  your  own  ranks  you  will  never  be 
able  to  achieve  tlie  results  you  hope  to  accomplisii. 

"You  know  that  the  real  remedy  for  intemperance, 
wherever  it  may  exist,  is  summed  up  in  the  state- 
ment of  President  Gompcrs,  as  follows: 

a     Increasing  wages. 

b     Shorter  liours  of  work. 

c  More  leisure,  so  as  to  alTord  an  opportunity 
for  the  cultivation  of: 

1.  Better  tastes. 

2.  Better  aspirations. 

3.  Higher  ideals. 

4.  Better  standards  of  living. 

5.  Freedom  from  the  burdens  of  excessive  toil. 

6.  Better  homes  and  surroundings  for  working- 
men." 

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EMINENT   DIVINES   ON   PROHIBITION. 

CO_  much  prominence  has  been  given  to  the  asser- 
*^  tion  that  the  leading  churchmen  of  the  nation 
were  against  the  use  of  Hquor,  that  The  Clovis  News, 
which  is  "from  Missouri,"  although  printed  at  Clovis, 
N.  M.,  went  to  the  trouble  to  investigate.  The  en- 
suing account,  taken  from  that  paper,  shows  exactly 
how  some  really  great  divines  feel  about  it: 

Rev.  Henry  C.  Kinney,  Holy  Trinity  Church, 
Chicago — They  (the  census  figures)  prove  beyond 
challenge  that  there  is  no  traceable  connection  be- 
tween the  number  of  saloons  in  the  cities  and  the 
crime  records  of  those  places. 

Rev.  Dr.  Harwood,  Trinity  Church,  New  Haven, 
Conn. — I  tliink  the  doctrine  of  prohibition  is  at  war 
with  all  the  ideas  and  teachings  of  the  English- 
speaking  race. 

Rev.  Dr.^  S.  D.  McConnell,  St.  Stephen's  Church, 
Philadelphia — I  oppose  prohibition  in  the  interest  of 
temperance. 

Bishop  Spalding — There  is  a  law  of  human  nature 
that_  excessive  pressure  brought  to  bear  on  any 
special  form  of  moral  evil  results  in  other  evils,  and 
now,  when  various  influences  are  diminishing  Intem- 
perance in  America,  there  seems  to  be  no  sufficient 
reason  for  calling  upon  the  state  to  prohibit  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  alcoholic  liquors.  The  less 
we  bring  the  government  Into  our  private,  personal 
and  domestic  affairs  the  freer  and  happier  we  shall 
be. 

Rev.  Lyman  Abbott — This  (prohibition)  was  not 
the  method  of  Jesus.  He  lived  in  an  age  of  total 
abstinence  societies  and  did  not  join  them.  He 
emphasized  the  distinction  between  His  methods 
and  that_  of  John  the  Baptist  by  saying  that  John 
came  neither  eating  nor  drinking.  He  condemned 
drunkenness,  but  never  in  a  single  instance  lifted  up 
His  voice  in  condemnation  of  drinking. 


THE  FIFTH  AND  FOURTEENTH  AMEND- 
MENTS. 
**I  F  the  prohibition  against  taklhg  liberty  or  prop- 
erty without  due  process  of  law  Is  not  a  restraint 
against  taking  liberty  or  property  by  ballot,  then  the 
representatives  of  'the  people'  who  framed  and 
adopted  the  5th  and  the  14th  Amendments  were 
sadly  deceived,  and  they  did  not  know  what  they 
were  doing."— Lee  J.  Vance,  of  the  New  York  Bar. 


ANTI-SALOON  LEAGUE'S  NATIONAL  LOBBY 

Discussing  the  organization  of  the  Anti-Saloon 
League,  L.  Ames  Brown,  in  the  North  American 
Review,  has  the  following  to  say  of  the  lobby  at 
Washington,  a  branch  of  which  may  be  found  in  all 
of  the  states: 

The  prohibition  forces  today  are  organized  with 
a  degree  of  efficiency  attained  by  few  moments  in 
the  history  of  the  republic.  Their  efficiency  of  or- 
ganization prevents  us  effectually  from  drawing  a 
parallel  between  the  Dow  movement  and  the  Hob- 
son    movement. 

The  power  of  that  portion  of  public  opinion  which 
now  supports  the  demand  for  national  prohibition 
is  exerted  upon  Congress  and  state  political  bodies 
and  in  elections  through  the  Anti-Saloon  League  of 
America.  The  league  organizes  and  manages  every 
important  prohibition  fight  made  in  the  country,  and 
maintains  at  Washington  one  of  the  most  powerful 
lobbies  ever  seen  at  tlie  national  capital.  It  is  known 
as  the  national  legislative  headquarters  of  the  league, 
and  it  is  in  charge  of  Rev.  E.  C.  Dinwiddic,  national 
legislative  superintendent. 

"Clearly  a  Lobby." 

It  is  a  lobby  clearly  within  the  sense  of  the  term 
accepted  in  modern  American  politics.  Its  repre- 
sentatives, backed  by  an  organized  influence  of 
public  opinion,  arc  enabled  to  dictate  the  attitude 
of  a  considerable  number  of  Congressmen  on  a  pend- 
ing question,  with  the  result  that  Congressmen,  of- 
tentimes are  driven  to  vote  against  their  own  views 
and  their  own  consciences  in  favor  of  the  measures 
advocated  by  the  lobby.  The  harmful  effect  of  such  a 
lobbying  enterprise  upon  our  system  of  government 
does  not  admit  of  controversy.  It  is  inimical  to  the 
very  spirit  of  our  governmental  institutions  in  that 
it  would  remove  the  legislative  power  from  Congress 
itself,  in  so  far  as  the  matter  of  prohibition  is  con- 
cerned, and  place  this  power  in  the  hands  of  the 
Anti-Saloon  League.  A  lobby  always  has  been  con- 
demned by  the  American  people.  The  very  term 
"lobby"  has  been  anathema  in  American  politics. 
The  Anti-Saloon  League  has  been  utterly  fearless 
in  its  operations,  however,  and  has  made  no  cflfort  to 
cloak  its  activities  in  the  corridors  of  the  House 
of  Representatives. 

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LYNCHING  IN  GEORGIA. 

nPHE  Literary  Digest,  in  an  article  on  "Georg'a's 
■^     Right  to  Lynch,"  says: 

"The  right  to  lynch  is  sacred  in  Georgia  and 
cannot  be  interferred  with,"  remarks  the  Portland 
Oregonian,  as  it  notes  that  the  Persons  Bill,  pro- 
viding for  the  removal  of  a  sheriff  when  a  lynching 
happens  in  his  county,  was  tabled  by  a  vote  of  113 
to  29  the  last  day  of  the  session  of  the  House  of 
that  state.  It  was  a  'bad  day  for  Georgia]  when  the 
bill  failed  of  enactment  into  lav/,  according  to  the 
Atlanta  Constitution,  which  adds: 

"As  it  is,  we  are  set  back  a  year  in  the  effort  to 
redeem  the  state  from  the  stigma  which  an  extra- 
ordinary record  of  law-violation  has  put  upon  her. 
We  can  do  nothing  now  but  wait.  And  in  waiting 
we  shall  hope  that  the  warning  Georgia  has  been 
given  will  prove  a  deterrent  sufficient  to  mitigate  in 
the  coming  twelve  months  the  record  which  in  mob- 
lawlessness  put  her  last  year  above  all  the  others. 

"We  have  at  all  times  stood  most  staunchly  for 
Georgia  against  criticism  and  abuse,  from  whatever 
source. 

"But  we  cannot  fail  to  recognize,  nor  can  any  man 
imless  be  is  blinded  to  reason  or  caught  in  the 
meshes  of  politics,  that  in  this  case  the  record  is 
against  us. 

"Let  us  hope  another  year  that  Georgia  will  elect 
a  legislature  that  will  think  a  little  less  of  personal 
politics  and  a  little  more  about  the  good  name  and 
reputation  of  the  state." 


WHY  VERMONT  VOTED  "WET." 

UNDER  the  caption  of,  "Learning  the  Difference," 
the  St.  Louis  (AIo.)  Times,  in  discussing  the 
Vermont  election  in  which  that  state  voted  two  to 
one  against  prohibition,  says: 

"The  public  of  Vermont  has  had  a  taste  of  in- 
temperate regulation  and  common  sense  legislation. 
The  result  of  the  election  indicates  that  those  of 
sound  judgment  and  appreciation  of  American  free- 
dom are  in  the  majority. 

"Prohibition  was  done  away  with  and  local  option 
accepted  as  a  fair  method  of  handling  personal 
matter. 

"Vermont  seems  to  have  learned  to  appreciate  the 
exercise  of  personal  liberty." 

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PROHIBITION  WOULD  COST  FROM  THREE 

TO  FIVE  BILLION  DOLLARS. 

pUT  as  briefly  as  possible,  the  different  effects  of 
*     nation-wide  prohibition  may  be  stated  as  follows: 

Abolition  of  business  representing  a  capitalization 
estimated  at  from  $3,000,000,000  to  $5,000,000,000. 

Absolute  loss  of  a  large  proportion  of  the  assets 
of  this  industry  and  tremendous  depreciation  in  value 
of  the  remainder. 

Closing  up  of  over  2,400  plants  manufacturing 
distilled,  malt  and  vinous  liquors,  having  a  capital, 
by  the  1909  census,  of  $831,000,000,  purchasing  raw 
materials  valued  at  $109,000,000  annually  and  turning 
out  a  product  valued   at  over  $030,000,000  annually. 

Closing  up  of  over  203,000  retail  liquor  establish- 
ments with  an  investment  running  up  into  many  mil- 
lions of  dollars. 

Bankruptcy  for  thousands  of  these  manufacturers, 
wholesalers  and  retailers  who  will  find  themselves 
facing  a  tremendous  loss  on  property,  tiie  value  of 
which  is  cither  wiped  out  or  greatly  depreciated  and 
a  large  proportion  of  wliosc  debtors  in  the  same  line 
of  business  will  be  unable  to  meet  bills  due 

Switching  of  thousands  of  these  dealers  to  other 
lines  of  industry,  where  they  will  come  into  cotnpcti- 
tion  with  their  brains  and  what  is  left  of  their  capital 
with  manufacturers  and  merchants  already  in  those 
fields. 

Millions  to  Railroads. 

Loss  to  railroads  of  the  country  of  revenue  on 
traflic  running  up  into  millions  of  dollars,  netting 
them  a  considerable  percentage  of  their  income 
from  freight.  According  to  the  United  States  Statis- 
tical Abstract  for  1913,  the  total  movement  of  manu- 
factures of  the  wine,  whisky  and  beer  industr}'  in 
1912  amounted  to  over  7,000,000  tons,  or  2>j  per  cent 
of  the  total  traffic  of  all  manufacturing  industries 
of  the  country. 

Loss  of  billlions  of  dollars  to  wholesale  grocers, 
hotel  owners,  restaurant  keepers,  druggists,  botli 
wholesale  and  retail,  most  of  whom  ordinarily  arc 
not  classed  by  tlic  public  with  the  liquor  industries. 

Loss  of  billions  of  dollars  in  assets  and  in  annual 
business  to  barrel  and  stave  manufacturers,  lumber 
men,  bottle  makers,  box  makers,  grain  dealers, 
printers,  auto  truck  manufacturers  and  other  col- 
lateral lines  of  business. 

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Many  Trades  Affected. 

Loss  of  milliot.-.s  of  dollars  annually  to  insurance 
men  in  premiums.  Loss  of  millions  to  building  con- 
structors, etc.  It  is  estimated  now  that  millions 
of  dollars  of  improvements  by  distillers,  brewers, 
wholesale  and  retail  dealers  are  being  held  in  abey- 
ance as  the  result  of  the  uncertainty  about  the  future 
of  their  business,  this  failure  to  invest  capital  in  hand 
being  one  of  the  factors  in  the  slow  recovery  from 
the  general  business  depression. 

Loss  of  customers  for  hundreds  of  millions  an- 
nually now  received  for  corn,  barley,  hops,  rice, 
wheat,  grapes,  apples,  peaches,  cherries,  molasses 
and  other  farm  products  now  utilized  by  distillers, 
brewers  and  wine  makers. 

200,000  Directly  Employed. 

Loss  of  jobs  by  some  15,000  salaried  employees, 
some  15,000  traveling  salesmen,  some  65,000  wage 
earners  in  manufacturing  and  wholesale  liquor  es- 
tablishments, and  loss  of  places  by  101,234  bartend- 
ers, a  grand  total  of  nearly  200,000  employees,  making 
a  living  upon  a  conservative  estimate  for  1,000,000 
of  the  100,000,000  people  of  the  country.  All  of  these 
figures,  with  the  exception  of  the  estimate  as  to  trav- 
eling salesmen,  are  from  the  United  States  Census 
of  Manufactures^  for  1909.  The  salary  and  wages 
of  the  employees  of  the  liquor  manufacturing  plants 
alone  in  1909  is  given  by  the  census  as  over  $73,000,- 
000  a  year. 

Millions  to  Farmers. 

Loss  in  addition  to  this  to  farm  laborers,  amount 
of  which  is  problematical.  According  to  the  census 
for  1909,  farmx  laborers'  wages  averaged  11.88  per 
cent  of  total  value  of  crops  produced.  Applying  this 
ratio  to  $113,513,971  worth  of  farm  products  used 
by  breweries  and  distilleries  in  1913,  the  total  pay- 
ment for  farm  labor  of  products  used  in  these  indus- 
tries was  over  $13,000,000,  a  sum  sufficient  for  the 
employment  of  nearly  75,000  persons  for  six  months, 
at  an  average  wage  of  $30  a  month. 

$250,000,000  Internal  Revenue. 

Loss  of  $230,000,000  annually  in  internal  revenue 
and  over  $18,000,000  in  custom  revenue,  a  grand  total 
of  nearly  $250,000,000,  over  one-third  of  the  total 
annual  income  from  all  sources. 

Necessity  of  raising  this  vast  sum  by  taxation 
in  other  directions.  The  difficulty  of  this  will  be  ap- 
parent to  all  who  recall  the  stress  attendant  upon 

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the  imposition  a  short  time  back  of  a  $100,000,000 
war  tax. 

Necessity  for  a  vast  army  of  United  States  officials 
to  enforce  the  nation-wide  prohibition  law  in  every 
state  and  every  local  community  within  the  country's 
bounds.  This  will  also  entail  the  necessity  of  raising 
a  great  sum  by  taxation  in  addition  to  that  raised 
to  replace  the  internal  revenue  and  customs  revenue 
lost  by  abolishing  the  liquor  industry. 

Loss  to  states  of  many  millions;  to  counties,  of 
other  millions,  and  to  incorporated  places  having  a 
population  of  2,000  and  over,  of  $01,95.5,001,  a  grand 
total  running  up  into  the  hundreds  of  millions  every 
year  in  liquor  license  and  tax  receipts. 


TAFT  ON  PROHIBITION. 

pX-PRESIDEXT  ^V^r.  TT.  TAFT.  in  the  "Four 
•'-'  Aspects  of  Civic  Duty,"  shows  the  danger  that 
lurks  behind  the  prohibition  movement. 

"Nothing  is  more  foolish,  nothing  more  utterly 
at  variance  witli  sound  policy  than  to  enact  a 
law  which,  by  reason  of  conditions  surrounding 
the  community  is  incapable  of  enforcement. 
Such  instances  are  sometimes  presented  by 
sumptuary  laws,  by  which  the  sale  of  intoxicat- 
ing liquors  is  prohibited  under  penalties  in 
localities,  where  tlie  public  sentiment  of  the  im- 
mediate community  does  not  and  will  not  sus- 
tain the  enforcement  of  the  law.  In  such  cases 
the  legislation  usually  is  tlie  result  of  agitation 
by  the  people  in  the  country  districts,  wlio  are 
determined  to  make  their  fellow  citizens  in  the 
city  better.  The  enactment  of  the  law  comes 
through  the  country  rci)rescntatives,  who  form 
a  majority  of  the  legislature,  but  the  enforce- 
ment of  tiie  law  reests  with  tlie  people  wlio  are 
generally  opposed  to  its  enactment,  and  under 
such  circumstances  the  law  is  a  dead  letter.  In 
cases  where  the  sale  of  liquor  cannot  be  pro- 
hibited in  fact,  it  is  far  better  to  regulate  than  to 
attempt  to  stamp  it  out. 

"By  the  enactment  of  a  drastic  law  and  the 
failure  to  enforce  it,  there  is  injected  into  the 
public  mind  the  idea  that  laws  are  to  be  observed 
or  violated  according  to  the  will  of  those  aflcctcd. 
I  need  no,t  say  how  altogctlicr  pernicious  such 
a  loose  theory  is.  .  .  .  Tlie  constant  violation 
or  neglect  of  any  law  leads  to  a  demoralized 
view  of  all  laws." 

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'THE  POOR  MAN'S  CLUB." 

"T  WOULD   rather    be   the    friend    of    some   liquor 

*■    dealer  than  of  some  saints. 

"Poverty  more  frequently  drives  men  to  drink 
than  drink  drives  men  to  poverty. 

"The  saloon  is  the  poor  man's  club." 

That  is  what  Bishop  Charles  D.  Williams,  of  the 
Episcopal  diocese  told  a  meeting  of  ministers  at 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Then  he  asked:  "What  have  the  drys  to  offer  in 
its  place?  Are  we  going  to  close  the  saloons,  de- 
prive the  working  man  of  his  glass  of  beer  and  then 
fold  our  arms?  If  we  do,  all  of  our  work  will  be 
for  naught.  We  must  continue  to  work  and  provide 
recreation  fields  and  other  forms  of  amusement. 
In  Bangor,  Maine,  in  a  Prohibition  state,  60  saloons 
are  running  openly  because  sentiment  so  decrees, 
even  supreme  court  rules  of  the  state  are  governed 
by  public  sentiment." 


No  free  nation  has  ever  submitted  to  a  law 
like  this  which  puts  the  whole  power  of  the 
customs  and  excise  of  the  United  States 
against  your  taking  a  drink  unless  you  make 
it  yourself  or  import  it  from  abroad,  as  a 
rich  man  would  do.  In  this  it  is  a  rich 
man's  bill.  —  REPRESENTATIVE  RICH- 
ARD WAYNE  PARKER,  of  New  Jersey. 


MORE    POLICEMEN    REQUIRED    IN    "DRY" 
CITIES. 

"PROHIBITION  cities  are  not  law-abidine  cities; 
^  prohibition  states  are  not  leaders  in  virtue. 
They  lynch  almost  as  many  in  prohibition  Missis- 
sippi as  are  killed  in  license  Philadelphia,  despite 
the  fact  that  the  populations  are  about  the  same 
and  congested  centers  usually  breed  crime.  Nor 
must  it  be  forgotten  that  a  lynching  has  always  been 
preceded  by  another  crime.  One  policeman  for 
every  981  of  your  population  sufHces  for  Minne- 
apolis; one  is  needed  to  each  809  in  bankrupt  pro- 
hibition Nashville,  one  for  every  735  in  Memphis, 
and  'dry'  Atlanta  needs  one  for  every  647  of  her 
inhabitants." — C.  M.  Bryan,  City  Attorney,  Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 


ALCOHOL  A  WAR  FACTOR. 

T  N  Leslie's  Weekly,  Mr.  P.  Lincoln  Mitchell,  dis- 
*•  cussing  the  necessity  of  alcohol  as  a  war  factor 
and  pointing  out  the  dependency  of  the  Nation  on 
distilleries  for  the  production  of  smokeless  powder, 
wrote  as  follows: 

"The  great  conflict  in  Europe  is  constantly 
presenting  tremendous  questions  to  the  warring 
nations,  and  many  of  these  questions  are  aris- 
ing from  emergencies  such  as  have  never  oc- 
curred in  the  history  of  the  world.  One  of  the 
most  serious  of  these  questions  has  been  the 
preparation  of  munitions.  Again  and  again,  the 
lack  of  sufficient  smokeless  powder  has  been 
held  responsible  for  defeat  when  victory  was 
almost  in   sight. 

"It  would  be  interesting  to  know  how  certain 
Congressmen,  who  are  such  ardent  advocates 
of  preparedness,  can  reconcile  their  position  in 
this  respect  with  their  approval  of  National  Pro- 
hibition. As  a  matter  of  fact,  tliis  country  is 
entirely  dependent  upon  the  distilleries  of  the 
nation  for  the  preparation  and  production  of 
smokeless  powder,  the  first  essential  in  modern 
warfare.  By  careful  estimate,  tiie  distilleries  of 
the  United  States  today  have  a  daily  capacity 
of  602,500  gallons  of  alcohol,  all  of  which  out- 
put could  be  devoted  to  war  purposes. 

"This  nation's  possibilities  for  producing 
smokeless  powder  are  very  interestingly  set  forth 
by  A.  M.  Breckler,  a  chemist  of  Louisville,  who 
is  an  associate  member  for  Kentucky  of  the 
Naval  Consulting  Board.  Mr.  Breckler  has 
prepared  a  table  showing  the  daily  mashing 
capacity  of  the  large  distilleries  of  this  country, 
and  finds  a  total  of  241,000  bushels.  As  there 
are  about  two  and  a  half  gallons  of  alcohol 
produced  per  bushel,  this  makes  a  possible  total 
of  G02,r)00  gallons  of  alcohol  per  day.  Each 
gallon  of  alcohol  weighs  about  seven  pounds, 
which  would  mean  a  possil)lc  daily  output  of 
4,217,r)00  pounds.  Estimating  two  pounds  of 
powder  to  one  pound  of  alcohol,  this  makes  a 
grand  total  of  8,435,000  pounds  of  smokeless 
powder  daily. 

"The  Naval  Advisory  Board  has  sent  blanks 
for  securing  an  industrial  inventory  for  the 
army  and  navy.  In  addition  to  the  regular 
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blanks  for  inventory  sent  to  manufacturing 
plants,  a  supplemental  sheet  to  distilleries  has 
been  furnished,  asking  many  detailed  questions 
as  to  their  capacity  for  producing  alcohol.  In 
other  words,  the  Naval  Advisory  Board,  recog- 
nizing the  dependency  of  the  big  distilleries  of 
the  country,  asks  for  detailed  information  (the 
asme  to  be  held  as  'strictly  confidential,  non- 
partisan, non-political  and  wholly  patriotic')  as 
an  essential  factor  in  preparedness  for  the  fu- 
ture. The  questions  asked  make  it  perfectly 
plain  that  the  Naval  Advisory  Board  has  no 
thought  or  intention  of  purchase  or  ownership, 
but  is  simply  anxious  to  secure  accurate  infor- 
mation upon  which  it  can  count  in  any  emer- 
gency, not  only  in  time  of  war,  but  in  time  o£ 
peace  as  well. 

"It  is  even  more  evident  from  every  question 
asked  that  the  Naval  Advisory  Board  presup- 
poses the  continued  existence  of  these  dis-^ 
tilleries.  How  will  the  Government  supply  the 
necessary  amount  of  alcohol  essential  to  the 
manufacture  of  smokeless  powder? 

"The  annual  internal  revenue  to  the  Govern- 
ment from  liquors  now  amounts  to  some  $250,- 
000,000,  representing  more  than  one-third  of  the 
total  revenue  received  by  the  United  States.  I£ 
the  statesmen  of  this  country  are  as  forehanded 
as  those  controlling  the  destinies  of  the  Central 
Powers  of  Europe,  and  if  they  are  to  learn  any- 
thing from  the  experience  of  the  Allies  in  the 
present  war,  is  not  the  conservation  of  the  na- 
tion's sources  of  alcohol  a  subject  demanding 
the  deepest  study  and  most  careful  considera- 
tion ?'* 


"JICK"  OR  JAMAICA  GINGER. 

OROHIBITDON  of  liquor  is  invariably  followed 
*  by  the  introduction  of  many  dangerous  sub- 
stitutes. Among  the  most  popular  of  these  is 
Jamaica  Ginger,  or  "Jick,"  as  it  is  more  popularly 
known.  The  Denver  Post  tells  how  popular  Jick 
is  in  "dry"  Colorado. 

"Witnesses  at  McLean's  (a  druggist)  trial  testi- 
fied that  the  ginger  when  diluted  with  milk  or  water 
had  a  'fine  kick'  and  made  an  excellent  substitute 
for  whiskey.  Evidence  was  given  showing  that 
many  of  the  purchasers  were  young  boys  of  eighteen 
or  nineteen." 

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CAUSES  OF  ACCIDENTS. 


Official    Statistics    Refute    Prohibitionists'    Theory. 


ABSTRACTS  from  "A  Study  of  the  Causes  of 
-**■  Industrial  Accidents,"  Issued  by  the  American 
Statistical  Association,  which  follow,  need  no  addi- 
tional comment  as  they  speak  for  themselves: 

"Discussing    the    Prohibition    conditions    in    New 
York  State  the  author  of  this  article  says: 

"Although  further  reports  nuist  be  awaited, 
giving  detailed  statistics  of  accident  causes  in 
New  York  State,  yet  there  is  one  vital  fact  al- 
ready available  from  the  records  of  the  legal  de- 
partment of  the  New  York  State  Workmen's 
Compensation  Commission  throwing  light  upon 
the  mooted  question  of  personal  negligence. 
In  view  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act  making  in- 
toxication a  cause  of  exclusion  of  awards,  it  is 
important  to  inquire  into  the  results.  The  Legal 
Department  says  there  were  but  a  very  small 
number  of  cases — not  more  than  100  in  a  total 
of  18,930  awards  allowed — in  which  the  question 
of  intoxication  was  raised  by  cither  the  employee 
or  insurance  carrier,  and  that  in  no  single  case 
did  the  Commission  decide  that  the  injuries  were 
due  solely  to  intoxication,  nor  was  a  single 
claim  disallowed  on  the  grounds  of  intoxication. 
It  is  evident  that  this  element  so  frequently  al- 
leged as  a  fertile  cause  of  accidents  was  not  ob- 
servable in  the  investigations  made  in  New  York 
State. 

New  Jersey's  Sad  Experience. 
Referring  to  Xcw  Jersey,  he  says: 

"The  New  Jersey  Workmen's  Compensation 
Law  was  enacted  in  1911,  intoxication  was  in- 
cluded among  the  acts  of  'negligence,'  which 
might  invalidate  a  claim.  The  report  from  New 
Jersey  for  1913  says:  'Of  4,276  cases  entitled 
to  compensation,  the  greater  part  were  settled 
promptly.  The  fact  that  of  all  the  cases  reported 
as  compensated,  93.2  per  cent  were  settled  auto- 
matically, i.  e.,  without  reference  to  a  court, 
speaks  well  for  the  law.  This  fact  evidently 
sliows  that  willful  negligence,  whether  in  the 
form  of  intoxication  or  in  the  other  ways 
described  in  the  act,  was  sp  nearlv  absent  as  a 
factor  as  to  be  dismissed  from  consideration.'" 


Quoting    statistics    from    the    report   of    the    Mas- 
sachusetts Industrial  Board  the  writer  says: 

"In  view  of  the  assertions  frequently  made  that 
Monday  is  the  principal  accident  day,  due  to  the 
eflfects  of  'Sunday  celebration,'  these  statistics 
showing  results  contrary  to  that  view  are  in- 
structive. The  statistics  given  for  the  year  1914, 
for  non-fatal  accidents,  would  seem  to  show  there 
were  more  accidents  on  Tuesday,  Wednesday 
and  Thursday,  than  on  Monday." 

The  report  continues: 

"So  far  as  wilful  negligence  (including  intoxi- 
cation) may  enter  into  the  matter  of  fault,  there 
is,  judging  from  the  returns,  hardly  any  of  it  ad- 
mixed with  the  causes  of  industrial  accidents  in 
Massachusetts.  Of  156  cases  contested  by  appeal 
to  the  arbitration  committees  or  to  the  courts, 
from  July  12,  1912,  to  June  30,  1913,  there  were 
only  4  cases  in  which  there  was  any  charge  of 
intoxication,  and  in  only  2  cases  were  claims 
denied  on  that  ground." 

Negligence  a  Big  Factor. 

"The  records  of  the  Industrial  Commission  of 
Wisconsin  show  that  in  only  4  or  5  cases  out 
of  the  18,139  cases  up  to  January  1,  1915,  has 
the  employer  made  any  claim  that  the  employee 
was  intoxicated,  and  in  only  1  case  has  the  Com- 
mission found  that  the  injury  was  caused  by  in- 
toxication. In  view  of  these  returns,  the  ques- 
tion of  intoxication  is  not  to  be  seriously  con- 
sidered as  a  direct  cause  of  industrial  accidents 
in  Wisconsin." 

"California  reports  say:  'No  substantiation  Is 
Is  found  in  these  returns  for  the  extreme  asser- 
tion, so  often  made,  that  the  bulk  of  accidents 
happen  on  Monday  and  are  the  result  of  the  use 
of  alcohol  on  Sunday.' 

"In  Its  first  annual  report  that  of  1912,  the 
Industrial  Insurance  Commission  of  the  State  of 
Washington  says:  'Framers  of  compensation  acts 
In  other  states  and  of  the  Federal  Bills  for  rail- 
way employees  engaged  in  interstate  commerce 
have  devoted  considerable  attention  to  intoxica- 
tion as  productive  of  work  accidents.*  The  re- 
cords of  this  Commission  do  not  show  many 
cases  of  Intoxication." 


In  summing  up  the  matter  the  statistican  says: 

"The  returns  show  that  deliberate  reckless- 
ness or  intoxication  is  not  frequent  as  a  cause  of 
accidents,  in  fact  is  so  exceedingly  slight  as  not 
to  require  serious  consideration  in  the  analysis 
of  the  immense  number  of  accidents  occurring 
in  the  United  States  annually.  This  conclusion 
seems  to  be  further  borne  out  by  the  statistics  in 
the  federal  report  dealing  with  the  cases  under 
the  United  States  Workmen's  Compensation  act 
of  1908.  Of  406  contested  cases  in  four  years 
(in  the  total  number  of  accidents,  the  majo'^ity 
of  the  claims  of  which  were  allowed)  neg^'gcnce 
or  misconduct  was  alleged  in  80  cases  and  in 
only  1  case  was  intoxication  charged,  and  that 
charge  was  not  substantiated  by  the  courts." 


HUTCHINS  HAPGOOD  ON  PROHIBITION. 

OUTCTTTXS  HArCOOD,  the  eminent  sociologist, 
*  *-  flays  the  "ignorant  head  of  Prohibition"  in  an 
article  in  the  Forum.  , 

Contrasting  temperance  and  prohibition;  modera- 
tion and  confiscation,  he  says: 

"The  present  mood  of  tlic  United  States,  like  that 
of  Europe,  is  temperate.  But  with  the  chastened 
mood  in  the  background,  the  evil  of  prohibition 
rears  its  ignorant  head  in  the  spectacular  fore- 
ground of  our  political  and  social  life.  Tiic  cause 
of  temperance  is  the  cause  of  civilization.  The 
cause  of  prohibition  indicates  the  underlying  fanat- 
icism which  is  never  present  in  the  most  enlightened 
lommunitics. 

"The  most  beautiful  civilizations  in  the  past  have 
never  been  Puritanical.  Their  principle  has  been 
one  of  balance  and  proportion,  and  their  spirit  that 
of  personal  freedom." 


PROHIBITION  WRONG,  SAYS  DARROW. 

CLARF.XCE  DARROW,  the  labor  attorney  of 
national  note,  has  frequently  taken  the  stump 
iigainst  Prohiliition.  On  one  occasion  he  gave 
utterance  to  the  following: 

"Now  there  is  one  rule  of  life.  If  you  give  men 
opportunity,  give  them  food  and  clothing  and  drink 
and  sunlight  and  homes,  they  can  look  after  their 
own  morals,  and  they  cannot  do  it  any  other  way. 
The  whole  theory  of  Prohibition  is  wrotig." 
SO 


CITY  HALL  BOOTLEG  HEADQUARTERS. 

'The  daring  and  efficiency  with  which  the  boot- 
*  legger  operates  is  illustrated  in  the  following 
story  from  the  Seattle  Times.  Seattle  has  been 
placed  in  the  "dry"  column  by  state-wide  Pro- 
hibition. 

"That  an  organized  ring  of  bootleggers  operating 
with  liquor  stolen  from  the  property  rooms  of  the 
Public  Safety  building  have  reaped  a  splena*d  profit 
in  the  last  two  months,  and  that  as  a  result  of  an  all- 
day  secret  investigation  among  both  civilian  and 
police  employes,  a  wholesale  upheaval  may  be 
brought  about,  were  allegations  today  that  stirred 
city  officials. 

"  'It  looks  as  if  the  city  hall  had  been  made  the 
Iieadquarters  of  a  gang  of  bootleggers,'  said  Chief 
of  Police  Chas.  L.  Beckingham." 


A  military 
canteen  near 
the  front  in 
the  Vosges. 


INSANITY  INCREASES  IN  KANSAS. 

"THE  Prohibitionists  charge  liquor  with  the  re- 
*  sponsibility  for  insanity.  Yet  the  following 
story  from  the  Topeka  States  Journal  shows  how 
rapidly  insanity  is  increasing  in  Kansas,  the  banner 
Prohibition  state: 

"Insanity  has  increased  nearly  14%  in  Kansas  in 
the  last  year.  That  was  the  statement  issued  today 
by  Senator  J.  W.  Howe,  secretary  of  the  State 
Board  of  Control.  The  report  shows  admission  of 
772  new  insane  patients  to  hospitals  of  Topeka, 
Ossawatomie,  and  Parsons  in  the  last  year  as  com- 
pared with  a  record  of  671  new  cases  for  the  year 
ending  June  30,  1915." 

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DISREGARDS  SPIRIT  OF  CONSTITUTION. 

**T  T  (the  Prohibition  movement)  cannot  fail  to  be 
*•  regarded  as  a  movement  fostered  in  the  elec- 
torate through  the  ignoring  of  one  of  the  funda- 
mentals of  that  plan  of  government  to  which  all  of 
our  characteristic  political  commitments  supposedly 
are  reconciled. 

"The  Constitution  of  the  United  States  embodies 
the  principle  of  governmental  Americanism.  It  is 
not  merely  a  set  of  laws  providing  how  our  statutes 
shall  be  drafted.  It  is  a  set  of  principles,  or,  more 
exactly,  the  principle  of  our  Government,  and  as 
such  must  be  an  organic  whole.  It  cannot  be  a 
patchwork.  Its  various  parts  must  co-ordinate  in 
order  that  it  retain  its  vital  character.  It  cannot  re- 
tain this  character,  this  unity,  if  there  are  to  be 
written  into  it  provisions  for  the  nullification,  as 
regards  certain  phases  of  our  national  life,  of  those 
older  fundamentals  embodied  in  it  at  a  time  when  it 
composed  a  unit  of  thought." — L.  Ames  Brown,  in 
the  North  American  Review. 


LIQUOR   AND   LONGEVITY. 

ALL  the  statistics  tiiat  follow  are  from  the  report 
■'*'  of  the  Bureau  of  Census  on  Mortality  Statistics 
for  1012.  The  total  number  of  deaths  in  1912  for 
tiie  registration  area  was  828,2^1,  a  decrease  of  1,033 
since  1011,  and  1011  shows  a  lower  rate  than  any 
previous  year  on  record.  The  I'nited  States  in  1911 
had  a  deatii  rate  of  14.2  per  1,000  jiopulation.  This 
rate  is  lower  than  that  of  .Austria,  Ireland,  ICngland, 
France,  the  German  l\ini)irc,  Hungary,  Italy,  Japan 
or  Spain.  Our  death  rate  as  a  nation  is  lower  than 
any  other  nation  of  equal  importance  as  a  world 
power. 

Now,  if  tlie  dcatii  rate  ii\  the  I'nited  States  is 
decreasing  and  the  consumption  of  liquor  is  increas- 
ing, what  is  the  connection?  If  any,  it  is  that  the 
temperate  and  general  use  of  wine,  beer  and  whiskey 
is  productive  of  longevity.  This  is  true  of  Belgium. 
In  that  country  the  ciiildren  are  given  their  beer  as 
our  children  arc  given  milk,  yet  in  Belgium  there 
are  more  people  over  SO  years  of  age  than  in  any 
other  country  on  the  globe.  It  is  interesting  to  note 
that  the  "wet"  states  and  cities  in  practically  all 
cases  have  a  lesser  death  rate  than  the  localities 
living  under  Prohibition  laws. 

Si 


THE  FARMER. 

A  CCORDING  to  the  United  States  Statistical  ab- 
stracts,  there  are  three  hundred  thousand  farm- 
ers raising  corn,  barley,  rye,  hops  and  fruits  that  go 
into  the  production  of  liquor.  They  receive  in  prices 
from  the  liquor  interests  of  the  country  two  hundred 
million  dollars  annually.  Destroy  this  market  and 
you  reduce  their  purchasing  powers  two  hundred 
million  dollars  a  year.  This  means  a  corresponding 
reduction  in  the  volume  of  all  business — the  output 
of  the  mines,  mills  and  factories.  When  you  hear  a 
Prohibition  speech  you  would  imagine  that  only  corn, 
and  only  a  small  per  cent  of  that,  is  used  in  the  pro- 
duction of  liquor.  They  do  not  tell  you  the  whole 
truth.  They  never  intimate  that  barley,  rye,  hops 
and  fruits  go  into  the  production  of  liquor. 


BRYAN  REFUTED. 

"\A7E  never  understand  a  subject  until  we  under- 
^^  stand  the  general  principles  that  control  it," 
says  Mr.  Bryan.  In  this  particular  instance  Mr. 
Bryan  has  stated  the  very  crux  of  the  question. 
Liquor,  like  many  other  things,  may  be  abused  as 
well  as  used.  Even  love  may  be  abused  and  carried 
to  excess  and  become  the  most  horrible  of  all  crimes, 
and  cause  the  greatest  suffering.  So  also  Patriotism, 
that  love  of  country  per  se,  which  is  supposed  to 
be  the  "greatest  love,"  may  be  carried  to  excess  and 
destruction  and  develop  into  tyranny.  These  are 
the  underlying  principles  which  we  must  understand 
and  which  Mr.  Bryan  so  consistently  ignores. 

In  regard  to  personal  liberty,  Mr.  Bryan  says: 
"Every  man's  right  ends  where  his  neighbor's  right 
begins."  True.  The  moderate  drinker  who  takes 
an  occasional  drink  does  not  interfere  with  any  other 
man,  and  consequently  no  one  else  has  the  right  to 
interfere  with  him.  When,  however,  a  man  becomes 
drunk  and  abusive  he  is  interfering  with  others,  and 
should  be  apprehended.  That  is  license  and  regula- 
tion. Prohibition  strikes  at  the  moderate  drinker, 
who  is  clearly  within  his  rights.  Again  Mr.  Bryan 
fails  to  distinguish  between  use  and  abuse. 


COMPENSATION. 

MR.  D.  CLARFAXE  GIBBOXY,  President  of  the 
Law  and  Order  Society  of  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
has  this  to  say  of  conipensation: 

"The  only  effective  plan,  it  seems  to  me,  by  which 
we  can  permanently  get  rid  of  the  liquor  business  is 
for  Pennsylvania  to  pass  a  Prohibition  amendment 
to  the  Constitution — appropriate  a  sum  of  money 
sufficiently  large  to  meet  the  requirements — provide 
for  the  appointment  of  some  sort  of  commission  with 
authority  to  appraise  all  liquor  establishments  at 
their  actual  value,  and  in  some  such  manner  com- 
pensate the  licensed  dealers  for  some  part  of  the 
actual  cash  loss  following  the  dissolution  of  the 
partners'- ip,  thereby  enabling  them  to  engage  in 
some  other  business. 

"Even  this  plan  would  entail  a  prcat  loss  to  the 
liquor  dealer,  but  he  would  quit  with  a  part  of  his  in- 
vestment and  could  cnc^age  in  sonic  other  occupation 
— satisfied  that  he  had  been  accorded  a  square  deal. 
To  my  mind,  this  is  the  only  honorable  way  out  of  a 
bad  situation.  If  we  look  carefully  at  the  principles 
involved  and  act  with  less  prejudice  towards  tlie 
persons  actually  licensed  to  carry  on  the  business, 
we  will  see  the  justice  of  this  proposition.  Moral 
problems  demand  righteous  settlement,  and  we  can- 
not pretend  that  the  saloon  question  is  none  of  our 
fault.  I  contend  that  it  is  all  our  fault.  This  being 
so,  we  shall  obtain  freedom  from  the  business  only 
by  methods  straightforward  and  clean.  Objection  to 
this  plan  will  be  made  because  of  the  large  amount 
of  money  necessary  for  such  a  big  undertaking.  I 
say,  wc  must  first  ask  if  it  is  right  to  abolish  the 
licjuor  traffic.  Next,  whether  we  arc  responsible  for 
the  existence  of  the  liquor  trafficc,  and  then  adopt 
the  surest  and  speediest  and  most  honorable  way  to 
end  the  business.  If  we  have  shared  in  the  profits 
as  taxpayers  and  citizens,  it  is  plain  we  should  be 
willing  to  stand  some  loss  in  closing  ont  the  traffic. 
Great  pnblic  improvements  are  prnvicK-d  for  by  the 
state  at  the  voters'  expense.  Anything  that  is  neces- 
sary for  the  comfort,  safety  and  the  convenience 
of  the  people  is  usually  arranged  for  ungrudgingly. 

"I  cannot  understand  how  any  good  citizen,  if  he 
comprehends  the  facts,  can  approve  a  partnership 
which  gives  both  partners  part  of  the  profits,  but 
charges  one  of  the  partners  with  all  the  losses  at 
the  time  of  dissolution.  This  is  neither  just  nor 
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equitable.  So,  therefore,  it  cannot  be  the  right  way 
out. 

"The  only  course  left  for  us  is  to  support  a  square 
deal  abolition  of  the  liquor  traffic." 

When  the  Swiss  General  Assembly  passed  a  Fed- 
eral law,  June  4,  1910,  providing  for  the  prohibition 
of  absinthe,  a  Federal  decree  was  also  passed  pro- 
viding for  the  payment  of  indemnities  to  compensate 
those  who  had  invested  their  wealth  in  the  business. 

In  February,  1915,  a  measure  was  passed  by  the 
French  Chamber  of  Deputies  which  allowed  the  sum 
of  14,800,000  francs  (approximately  $2,965,000)  as 
compensation  to  manufacturers  and  dealers  in  ab- 
sinthe for  the  extinction  of  their  business. 

In  England  the  licenses  are  distributed  among  the 
saloons  at  regular  intervals,  known  as  Brewster  Ses- 
sions. The  authorities  reserve  the  right  to  grant  or 
refuse  as  many  licenses  as  they  think  best. 

However,  those  saloon-keepers  who  are  refused  a 
renewal  of  their  license  are  given  compensation  for 
their  loss.  In  the  year  1909,  625,001  pounds  (approxi- 
mately $3,125,000)  was  the  amount  paid  as  compen- 
sation money  by  the  authorities  in  England. 

When  the  ban  was  placed  on  the  sale  of  vodka  in 
Russia  compensation  was  not  necessary,  for  the 
vodka  business  was  owned  by  the  Russian  Govern- 
ment and  the  abolition  of  the  business  worked  no 
injury  to  any  private  citizen. 

The  citizens  of  the  United  States  should  ever  keep 
in  mind,  when  discussing  Prohibition,  the  fact  that 
it  would  not  be  fair  nor  just  nor  American  to  destroy 
a  man's  investment,  his  business,  his  good  will,  and 
to  rob  many  homes  of  their  incomes  without  pro- 
\iding  proper  compensation  for  all  this  loss. 


PREPAREDNESS  AND   PROHIBITION. 

T^HIS  is  an  era  of  Preparedness. 

The  day  of  uncertainities  is  here,  and  the  hour 
may  be  close  at  hand  when  Columbia  will  call  upon 
her  millions  for  aid  and  defense  against  hostile  in- 
vasion. 

Whence  will   protection    come?      From    the    Pro- 
hibition states  or  from  their  liberal  sisters? 

There  are  132,208  trained  and  organized  militia  in 
the  United  States.  Of  this  number,  95,955,  or  more 
than  seventy  per  cent,  are  In  "wet"  states.  Hawaii, 
a  "wet"  possession,  has  855  additional  men.  Only 
the  paltry  remainder  of  35,398  are  found  in  all  of 
the  nineteen  "dry"  states. 
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SOUTH  STAGGERING  UNDER  "DRY"  LAWS. 

JAMES  G.  RICE,  of  Chattanooga,  after  a  visit  and 
personal  investigation  of  five  Southern  states,  de- 
clares in  the  Memphis  Herald  that  prohibition  has 
nearly  bankrupted  them.  In  a  letter  to  A.  L.  Rowe, 
editor  of  the  Herald,  Rice  ^says  he  has  the  official 
records  to  back  him  up.     The  article  says: 

The  policy  prevailing  in  a  number  of  Southern 
states  of  enacting  laws  that  destroy  revenue-bearing 
property  and  failure  or  refusal  on  the  part  of  the 
Legislatures  to  provide  ways  and  means  for  cover- 
ing the  loss  back  into  the  public  treasuries,  througii 
other  forms  of  taxation,  is  causing  public  concern 
and  a  great  deal  of  worry  on  the  part  of  public 
ofhcials. 

Resort  to  bond  issues  and  otlicr  forms  of  borrow- 
ing has  become  more  frequent  of  recent  years  to 
pay  deficits  in  public  revenues,  and  many  counties 
in  some  of  the  states  have  suffered  their  warrants  to 
depreciate  in  value  until  the  discount  on  them  is  as 
high  as  20  per  cent.  This  depreciation  causes  nuich 
loss  to  the  taxpayers,  for  the  reason  that  when  con- 
tractors make  bids  on  public  work  they  include  the 
discount  on  the  warrants  in  their  bids. 

Work  On  Credit  Basis. 

Three  Southern  states  arc  now  conducting  their 
business  on  a  credit  basis  in  the  absence  of  sufficient 
revenue  in  their  treasuries  to  meet  the  current  ex- 
penses of  government.  All  five  are  under  prohibi- 
tion laws  that  deprived  the  public  treasuries  of 
revenues  approximating  $:,00,0()0  a  year  each,  with- 
out making  any  improvement,  so  far  as  records  show, 
in   iniblic  morals. 

For  example,  Alabama  has  had  trouble  \vith  its 
finances  ever  since  the  state  began  experimenting 
with  prohibition.  The  deficit  in  tiie  revenues  of  tiie 
state  at  present  is  about  $:?,000.000,  and  it  is  being 
increased.  The  state  has  a  bonded  debt  already  ap- 
proximating $11,000,000,  and  if  the  floating  deficit  is 
added,  the  total  debt  of  the  state  is  about  $14,000,000. 

The  fiscal  affairs  of  the  state  of  Arkansas  arc  in 
such  chaotic  condition  that  it  is  difficult  to  say  with 
ccrtciinty  how  much  that  state  owes.  It  is  difficult 
to  determine  how  nuich  of  tlie  indebtedness  is  due 
to  prohibition  laws.  However,  it  is  a  recorded  fact 
that  when  tiie  rrohibition  law  of  tliat  state  deprived 
the  treasury  of  near  a  half  million  dollars  a  year 
that  a  collapse  of  public  credit  resulted. 


Georgia  was  forced  to  sell  bonds  to  the  amount 
of  $3,500,000  a  year  ago  to  pay  deficits  in  her 
revenues.  The  issue  was  taken  by  a  wealthy  citizen 
of  Atlanta  after  the  Governor  had  tried  to  sell  the 
bonds  in  New  York.  The  recent  Legislature  of 
Georgia  made  appropriations  of  $500,000  in  excess 
of  the  estimated  revenue  for  the  year.  Georgia  has 
run  behind,  therefore,  in  recent  years  about  $4,- 
000,000. 

School  Teachers  Suffer. 

The  state  of  Mississippi  has  a  deficit  in  its 
revenues  of  about  $1,350,000,  to  be  covered  some  way 
at  the  end  of  the  present  biennial  period.  The  Audi- 
tor complains  that  a  credit  system  upon  which  the 
state  is  forced  to  conduct  its  business  is  costing  the 
people  a  great  deal  of  money.  He  also  says  that 
"many  of  the  counties  suffered  their'  warrants  to 
depreciate  in  value"  until  they  are  at  a  discount  of 
from  15  to  20  per  cent.  Public  school  teachers  in 
many  counties  are  forced  to  stand  a  loss  of  $20.00 
out  of  a  warrant  for  $100,  according  to  the  State 
Auditor.  There  has  been  a  depreciation  of  taxable 
property  in  Mississippi  in  the  past  two  years  of 
$21,000,000.  This  depreciation,  says  the  State  Auditor, 
takes  about  $125,000  a  year  out  of  the  treasury. 

The  last  Legislature  of  the  state  of  Tennessee 
found  a  deficit  in  revenues  of  $1,023,000.  This  has 
been  converted  into  bonds  and  is  now  a  part  of  the 
bonded  debt  of  state.  It  was  caused  in  a  large 
measure,  if  not  entirely,  b}''  the  operations  of  a  Pro- 
hibition law.  It  is  a  part  of  the  fiscal  history  of 
Tennessee  that  before  prohibition  was  adopted  the 
state  was  reducing  its  bonded  debt  by  $250,000,  or 
more,  a  year.  Practically  nothing  has  been  paid  on 
the  debt  under  Prohibition  administrations.  The 
larger  cities  of  the  state,  and  many  of  the  counties, 
have  suffered  losses  almost  beyond  computation  by 
this  policy. 


A  MINISTER  ON  PROHIBITION. 

THE  following  appeared  in  the  Omaha  (Neb.)  Bee: 
"The  Prohibition  problem  is  a^  question  for 
every  man  to  decide  for  himself.  It  is  not  a  ques- 
tion to  be  passed  on  by  legislation.^  Intemperance 
is  as  old  as  civilization,  and  the  individual  who  ex- 
pects to  wipe  it  out  by  the  mere  writing  of  a  law,  is 
deluded,"  says  Dr.  W.  R.  Wasson,  of  New  York,  in 
a  forceful  address  dehvered  at  All  Saints  Church, 
Sunday  morning. 

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FINANCIAL  RESULTS  OF  PROHIBITION. 

T  N  an  article  headed,  "The  Financial  Results  of 
^  Prohibition,"  appearing  in  the  Magazine  of  Wall 
St.,  W.  R.  Couch  points  out  the  effects  that  would 
follow  in  the  wake  of  proliibition. 

"What  would  be  the  result  if  the  entire  liquor 
industry  in  the  United  States  were  wiped  out?  This 
is  the  momentous  issue  facing  the  people  now — and 
yet  the  subject  is  not  discussed  seriously  and  hon- 
estly by  the  press. 

"The  following  figures  can  be  verified  by  consult- 
ing the  government's  statistics: 
Capital    invested    in    the    liquor    in- 
dustry    $1,294,583,426.00 

Annual     disbursements     other     tlian 

wages 1,121,696,097.30 

Annual  disbursement  for  wages 453,872,553.00 

Total  $2,870,152,076.36 

Out  of  257  industries  specified  by  the  United 
States  census  of  1910  only  five  had  a  larger  amount 
of  capital  invested  than  the  liquor  industry. 

"The  value  of  farm  products  used  arc  as  follows: 

Barley $55,236,641 

Corn    30,924,335 

Wheat 869,938 

Rice   7,288,786 

Hops    11.155,215 

Rye   4.604.476 

Molasses   2,056,626 

Fruit 751,835 

Other  products 620,119 

'Applying  mathematics  to  the  United  States 
census  report  you  will  find  that  during  1913  the 
liquor  interests  contributed  $13,485,460  to  farm  labor, 
or  a  sum  sufficient  for  the  employment  of  7,419  per- 
sons for  six  montlis  at  $30  per  month.  The  liquor 
industry  and  the  allied  industries  give  employment 
to  considerably  over  1.000,000  people,  and  if  their 
dependents  are  considered,  a  grand  total  of  about 
4,000,000  persons  arc  involved. 

Means  Increased  Taxes. 
"The  retail  liquor  trade  alone  pays  $199,438,882 
per  annum  for  rent— and  this  docs  not  include  hotels, 
etc.,  tha-t  will  be  seriously  affected.  Tlicre  will  be 
tiiousands  of  buildings  vacant,  with  the  result,  if 
supply  and  demand  mean  anything,  that  real  estate 


values  will  decrease,  but  taxes  will  increase  because 
of  a  decreased  revenue  to  state  and  government. 

"The  amount  of  insurance  carried  by  the  retail 
trade  alone  is  estimated  at  approximately  $226,772,- 
180.  The  annual  disbursements  for  license  fees  for 
1913  amounted  to  $109,254,044 — a  goodly  sum  to 
make  up  by  direct  taxation,  and  this  does  not  include 
fees  from  drug  stores,  grocery  stores  and  such  estab- 
lishments that  distribute  liquor.  There  is  approxi- 
mately $500,000,000  ^  collected  annually  in  federal, 
state,  county  and  city  taxes  from  the  liquor  busi- 
ness which  will  be  wiped  out  by  prohibition.  There 
would  be  a  deficit  in  the  national  treasury  under 
prohibition  of  at  least  $325,000,000  a  year. 

New  York  Interests. 

"What  would  prohibition  and  local  option  mean 
to  New  York  state  alone?  There  are  152,000  per- 
sons employed — annual  wages  paid,  $128,000,000; 
value  of  product  in  trade,  $842,000,000;  internal 
revenue  tax  for  1914,  $72,000,000;  number  of  farms 
devoted  to  hops  culture,  2,227;  acreage,  12,850." 


Mr.  Speaker,  I  believe  in  temperance.  I 
yield  to  no  man  in  my  desire  for  law  and 
order.  I  believe  that  the  people  in  every 
locality  are  better  qualified  to  decide  what 
they  want  themselves  than  are  the  people  in 
any  other  loeality  to  decide  for  them.^ — REP- 
RESENTATIVE MARTIN  B.  MADDEN, 
of  Illinois. 


CRIME  IN  "DRY"  CHATTANOOGA. 

A  FAVORITE  prohibition  argument  is  that  pro- 
-**•  hibition  reduces  crime  to  a  minimum,  but  does 
it?  The  answer  is  furnished  by  this  article  from 
the  Chattanooga  (Tenn.)  Times: 

"The  October  term  of  the  Criminal  Court,  which 
has  just  ended,  established  a  record  in  the  trial  of 
murder  cases  that  will  doubtless  stand  for  some 
time  to  come.  During  the  month  just  ended.  Judge 
McReynolds  called  eighteen  homicide  cases.  Out 
of  the  fourteen  actually  tried  by  juries,  there  were 
twelve  convictions  and  but  two  verdicts  of  not 
guilty.  That  within  itself  was  a  record." 
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THE  NEED  OF  DEFENSE. 

HTHERE  are  national  publications  running  now  in 
the  advocacy  of  the  prohibition  of  those  things 
which  make  life  worth  while — those  things  which 
lielp  us  forget  the  sordidness  of  our  usually  hum- 
drum living. 

Miinstcrberg,  in  his  "American  Problems,"  discus- 
ing  "Prohibition  and  Temperance,"  has  this  to  say: 
"The  inhibition  by  alcohol,  too,  may  have  in 
the  right  place  its  very  desirable  purpose,  and 
no  one  ought  to  be  terrified  by  such  physiolog- 
ical statements,  even  if  inhibition  is  called  a 
partial  paralysis.  Yes,  it  is  partial  paralysis,  but 
no  education,  no  art,  no  politics,  no  religion,  is 
possible  without  such  partial  paralysis.  What 
else  are  hope  and  beHef  and  enjoyment  and 
enthusiasm  but  a  re-cnforccment  of  certain 
mental  states,  with  corresponding  inhibition — 
that  is  paralysis — of  the  opposite  ideas?  If  a 
moderate  use  of  alcohol  can  help  in  this  most 
useful  blockade,  it  is  an  ally  and  not  an  enemy. 
If  wine  can  overcome  and  suppress  the  con- 
sciousness of  the  little  miseries  and  of  the 
drudgery  of  life,  and  thus  set  free  and  re-enforce 
the  unchecked  enthusiasm  for  the  dominant  idea, 
if  wine  can  make  one  forget  the  frictions  and 
pains  and  give  again  the  feeling  of  imity  and 
irictionlcss  j^owcr — by  all  means  let  us  use  this 
helper  to  civilization.  It  was  a  well-known 
philosopher  who  couples  Christianity  and  alcohol 
as  the  two  great  means  of  mankind  to  set  us 
free  from  pain.  But  nature  provided  mankind 
with  other  means  of  inhibition;  sleep  is  still 
more  radical,  and  every  fatigue  works  in  the 
same  direction;  to  inhibit  means  to  help  and  to 
prepare  for  action." 
Continuing,  he  says: 

"Wiiat  would  result  if  prohibition  should  really 
prohibit,  and  all  the  inhibitions  which  a  mild  use 
of  beer  and  wine  promise  to  the  brain  really  be 
lost?  The  psychological  outcome  would  be 
two-fold:  certain  effects  of  alcohol  whic'i  serve 
civilization  would  be  lost;  and,  on  the  other 
hand,  harmful  substitutions  would  set  in.  To 
begin  with,  the  nation  would  lose  its  chief  means 
of  recreation  after  work.  We  know  today  too 
well  tiiat  i^hysical  exercise  and  sport  is  not  real 
rest  for  the  exhausted  brain-cells.  The  Ameri- 
can masses  work  hard  througliout  the  day.  The 
90 


sharp    physical   and    mental   labor,    the   constant 

hurry  and  drudgery  produce  a   state  of  tension 

and  irritation  which  demands  before  the  night's 

sleep    some    dulling    inhibition    if    a    dangerous 

unrest  is  not  to   set  in.      Alcohol   relieves   that 

daily  tension  most  directly." 

Hugo     Miinsterberg,     noted    psychologist,    has 

made  a  wise  though   frank   statement  in^  the  above, 

and    his    utterances    carry    weight,    coming    as    the 

words  of  one  who  really  thinks. 


WHY  nCHT  ONLY  THE  SHADOW? 


Why  does 
the  Anti-Sa- 
loon League 
direct  all  o  f 
its  energies 
against  the 
supply  rather 
than  the  de- 
mand? 


MEANS  UNEMPLOYMENT  AND  LOW 
WAGES. 

rjTSCUSSING  the  detrimental  efifect  of  Prohibi- 
■^  tion  on  the  wages  and  standard  of  living  of  the 
wage  earners,  the  British  Columbia  Federationalist 
recently  said: 

"The  first  effect  of  Prohibition  legislation  upon 
the  workers  then  will  be  to  compel  a  considerable 
number  of  them  to  seek  employment  in  other  lines 
of  human  effort,  where  they  will  more  than  likely 
find  the  ranks  already  overcrowded.  It  is  folly  to 
assert  that  these  workers  w^ho  have  been  thrown 
out  into  the  labor  market  can  find  employment  in 
other  lines,  for  the  very  simple  reason  that  all  other 
lines  are  fully  manned  already,  and  there  is  still  a 
surplus  of  labor  in  the  market.  The  actual  effect  of 
prohibition,  if  it  were  real  and  complete,  would  be 
to  increase  the  surplus  labor  in  the  market,  and, 
therefore,  tend  to  depress  the  price,  that  is,  force 
wages  down." 

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CONSUMPTION  OF  LIQUOR  INCREASES. 

A  NY  and  all  attempts  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League 
^  to  show  suppression  of  the  liquor  traffic  in  the 
reduction  of  the  consumption  of  alcoholic  liquors 
through  the  addition  of  "dry"  territory  are  abso- 
lutely controverted  by  the  official  statements  of  the 
United  States   Internal  Revenue  Department. 

While  it  is  true  that  four  states,  Jklichigan,  Ne- 
braska, Montana  and  South  Dakota,  voted  out  the 
saloons  in  recent  elections,  in  each  and  every  in- 
stance no  attempt  was  made  to  prevent  the  con- 
sumption of  alcoholic  beverages  for  personal  use. 
Indeed,  the  Anti-Saloon  League  fully  recognizes  the 
impossibility  of  voting  any  territory  "dry";  in  fact, 
that  organization  simply  urges  upon  the  people  the 
closing  of  the  main  channels  of  distribution,  oper- 
ated under  license,  regulation  and  control.  Before 
attempting  to  do  even  this  much,  it  substitutes  for 
the  main  channel  another  avenue  of  distribution, 
namely,  individual  shipments  for  home  consumption 
and  personal  use.  The  two  effects  resulting  from 
these  Anti-Saloon  League  methods  have  been  to 
greatly  increase  the  price  of  wines,  beers  and  liquors 
for  personal  use,  and  to  cut  out  a  revenue  received 
by  the  states,  cities  and  towns  and  counties. 

Rural  States  Are  "Dry." 

According  to  llie  United  States  Census  report, 
the  four  states  that  recently  adopted  so-called  pro- 
hibition are  rural  states.  South  Dakota  has  13,1% 
urban  population;  Montana  35.5%;  Nebraska  26.1% 
and  Michigan  less  than  50%.  California,  Missouri 
and  Maryland  repudiated  prohibition  by  large  ma- 
jorities. 

There  are  now  23  states  that  have  prohibition 
laws  on  their  statute  books.  In  17,  prohibition  is 
still  in  the  experimental  stage,  and  that  tlicse  "dry" 
laws  have  not  proved  effective  is  best  evidenced  by 
the  constant  increase  in  the  consumption  of  liquor 
as  officially  stated  bv  I'.  S.  reports. 

The  population  of  the  23  "dry"  states  is  32,306,341, 
while  tlie  population  of  the  "wet"  states  is  59,665,926. 
The  population  of  the  states  voted  "dry"  last  year 
is  only  4,902,328,  while  the  population  of  tiie  four 
states  that  voted  "wet"  is  7,322,186. 

\'crmont  for  the  second  time  repudiated  prohibi- 
tion by  a  vote  of  more  than  two  to  one. 

During  the  past  year  over  two  million  more  people 
voted  "wet"  than  "dry,"  while  there  arc  still  twice 
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as  many  people  living  in  license  states  than  in  so- 
called  prohibition  states. 

In  many  of  these  "dry"  states  state-wide  prohibi- 
tion was  enacted  by  the  Legislatures  and  not  by 
vote  of  the  people.  Efforts  to  secure  a  direct  vote 
on  this  question  by  those  favoring  individual  liberty 
in  these  "dry"  states  have  been  constantly  sup- 
pressed. 

As  for  the  country  at  large,  it  is  rapidly  approach- 
ing the  same  condition  which  existed  a  little  more 
than  half  a  century  ago.  In  1855,  when/fhere  Vere 
31  states  in  the  Union,  16  states  adopted  prohlbitio^n.- 
These  included  such  states  as  New  York,  Massachu- 
setts, Ohio  and  Illinois.  In  other  words,  more  than 
half  the  states  of  the  Union  adopted  prohibition 
laws.  What  was  the  result?  Immediately  the  largest 
states,  representing  the  great  industrial  centers,  re- 
pealed these  prohibition  laws  as  being  absolutely 
impractical,  ineffective  and  impossible  of  enforce- 
ment. Others  followed  this  example,  imtil  today 
only  Maine  and  Kansas  may  be  considered  as  hav- 
ing thoroughly  tested  out  so-called  state-wide 
prohibition. 

At  the  last  "wet"  and  "dry"  election  in  Maine 
prohibition  was  retained  bj'-  a  bare  majority  of  758 
votes. 

Will  History  Repeat? 

If  history  repeats  itself,  the  reaction  against 
sumptuary  legislation  is  about  due,  and  every  in- 
dication points  to  the  fact  that  states  now  "dry" 
in  name  will  repudiate  present  laws  for  exactly  the 
same  reason  that  so  many  states  repudiated  pro- 
hibition back  in  the  50's.  Many  of  these  states  are 
suffering  not  alone  from  the  loss  of  revenue  for- 
merly derived  from  license,  but  from  a  general  con- 
tempt for  all  laws  that  seems  to  invariably  follow 
in  the  wake  of  "dry"  legislation. 

While  four  of  the  states  recently  voted  "dry,"  it 
is  well  to  remember  that  in  many  other  states — 
those  under  prohibition  as  well  as  under  license 
laws — elected  avowedly  liberal  candidates  over 
nominees  whose  utterances  and  records  were 
strongly  in   favor  of   prohibition. 

National  conventions,  not  only  of  the  controlling 
Republican  and  Democratic  parties,  but  also  of  the 
Progressive  party  absolutely  refused  to  consider 
prohibition  as  a  national  issue. 

Now  for  a  comparison  as  to  the  consumption  per 
capita  of  beer,  wine  and  whiskey  (in  gallons). 


Use  of  Liquor  Increasing. 

According  to  the  reports  of  the  U.  S.  Internal 
Revenue  Commissioner,  this  per  capita  consumption 
has  steadily  and  rapidly  increased,  while  in  1850, 
when  prohibition  was  unknown,  the  average  con- 
sumption for  each  individual  was  only  4.8  gallons. 
This  amount  has  been  doubled  again  and  again,  the 
increase  being  most  rapid  since  the  adoption  of 
state-wide  prohibition. 

Notwithstanding  that  19  states  were  "dry"  at  the 
time  of  the  1916  election,  the  reports  of  the  Com- 
missioner of  Internal  Revenue  for  the  fiscal  year 
ending  June  30,  1916,  shows  an  increase  in  tax  re- 
ceipts over  1915  of  more  than  $13,000,000  on  dis- 
tilled spirits. 

An  even  greater  increase  is  shown  for  the  present 
fiscal  year,  according  to  the  monthly  reports  issued 
by  the  Commissioner's  office.  For  the  first  four 
months — July,  August,  September  and  October — tax 
paid  withdrawals  of  distilled  liquors  for  consump- 
tion have  been  7,395,537  gallons  greater  than  in  the 
corresponding  four  months  of  the  previous  fiscal 
year.     This  is  an  increase  of  over  18%. 

All  of  which  proves  very  conclusively  that  pro- 
hibition docs  not  prohibit,  but  simply  changes  the 
channels  of  distribution,  destroys  revenue  and  makes 
impossible  proper  regulation   and  control. 

Indeed,  not  only  history  teaches,  but  long  experi- 
ence proves,  that  license,  regulation  and  control 
offer  the  only  practical  solution  to  the  so-called 
liquor  problem.  Tiiat  this  truth  is  becoming  more 
and  more  universally  recognized  is  best  evidenced 
by  the  fact  that  not  only  the  great  cities,  but  the 
large  industrial  states  as  well,  refuse  to  again  try 
the  experiment  that  proved  so  costly  in  the  50's. 

"ISSUE"  PAYS  DAMAGES. 

•THE  recent  verdict  of  $8,583  as  libel  damages 
against  the  American  Issue,  a  Prohibition  publi- 
cation and  the  official  organ  of  the  Anti-Saloon 
League,  and  in  favor  of  Thomas  L.  Sloan,  an  at- 
torney of  Pender,  Neb.,  calls  to  mind  a  sinn'lar 
verdict  for  damages  handed  down  in  1910. 

Three  assistants  of  Rev.  P.  A.  Baker,  at  that  time 
general  superintendent  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League 
of  America,  were  convicted  of  libel,  and  the  jury 
assessed  a  verdict  of  $4,500  against  them  and  their 
associates.  It  was  charged  that  they  libeled  Lieut. 
E.  M.  Reeve,  of  the  United  States  Army. 

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WHY  LIQUOR  MEN  FIGHT. 

T  F  prohibition  does  not  prohibit,  why  do  liquor  men 
*     figlit  its   adoption." 

This  is  the  old,  time-worn  phrase  asked  by  every 
prohibitionist  who  never  stops  to  think,  and  the 
answer  by  the  liquor  dealers  themselves  is  found  in 
the  fact  that  under  license,  regulation  and  control 
a  legitimate  business  will  be  conducted,  while  under 
prohibition  the  whole  industry  becomes  illegal. 

The  presence  of  twenty-three  "dry'[  states  means 
absolutely  nothing  in  so  far  as  prohibition  is  con- 
cerned, for  the  annual  reports  of  the  Commissioner 
of  Internal  Revenue  show  that  the  average  con- 
sumption of  liquors  is  not  aflfected  by  the  presence 
of  these  "dry"  states.  The  truth  is  Uiat  beer,  wine 
and  whiskey  are  as  popular  in  Maine,  Tennessee, 
Georgia,  Kansas  and  other  "dry"  territory  as  they 
are  in  New  York,  Pennsylvania,  Ohio,  Illinois  and 
other  states  where  the  right  to  drink  ^  or  not  to 
drink  is  respected  and  left  to  the  individual. 

A  Legitimate  Industry. 

The  liquor  industry,  with  its  many  millions  of 
invested  capital,  is  a  legitimate  business.  The  Su- 
preme Court  of  the  United  States,  in  the  famous 
Warehouse  Receipt  Case,  decided  January  26,  1914, 
used  the  following  language  when  speaking  of  the 
liquor  business:  "But  we  know  of  no  ground  for 
thus  condemning  honest  transactions  which  grow 
out  of  recognized  necessities  of  a  lawful  business." 

The  distiller  and  liquor  dealer  desire  to  defend 
the  legal  status  of  their  business!  They  w^ant  the 
people  of  the  country  to  know  that  the  men  in  the 
business  desire  to  conduct  their  affairs  in  a  clean 
and  legal  manner  rather  than  have  their  goods  fall 
into  the  hands  of  a  lawless  element,  ever  ready  to 
defy  all  laws. 

When  a  state  is  voted  "dry,"  which  is  usually  by 
a  very  scant  majorit}-,  it  is  easy  to  see  that  the 
demand  for  liquor  does  not  cease,  but  the  demand 
for  the  higher,  better  and  purer  grades  of  liquor, 
such  as  are  used  when  sold  in  legitimate  channels, 
ceases,  and  the  demand  begins  for  the  bootleg,  speak- 
easy trash,  the  selling  of  which  is  detrimental  to 
the  legitimate  liquor  business  in  every  way. 

This  Is  What  Happens. 

Statistics  of  the  Department  of  Internal  Rvenue 
show  that  when  a  state  becomes  "dry"  there 
springs  into  existence  irresponsible  bootleggers,  who 

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do  a  business  equal  in  amount,  if  not  greater,  than 
that  previously  conducted  by  the  retailers  who  lost 
their  licenses.  This  exposes  the  hypocrisy  of  the 
prohibition  movement,  in  that  it  is  simply  instru- 
mental in  changing  the  channel,  whereas  the  supply 
is  left  open  to  take  care  of  the  still  existing  demand. 

The  liquor  dealer,  in  favor  of  license,  regulation 
and  control,  is  naturally  and  necessarily  opposed  to 
the  encouragement  and  protection  of  the  boot- 
legger,  blind   tiger  and  moonshiner. 

Furthermore,  the  liquor  dealers  have  their  wealth 
invested  in  the  industry.  Their  employees  depend 
upon  it  for  a  living.  Prohibition,  without  decreas- 
ing the  consumption  of  licpior,  destroys  their  busi- 
ness and  makes  thousands  jobless.  The  man  who 
will  not  figlit  for  what  is  rightfully  his  is  a  fool! 


WHO    DOES    THE 

HAUUNC? 

Will    this    loss 
of  over  one-third 
of     the      Govern- 
ment  Revenue 
mean     a    big    in- 
crease   in    your 
taxes? 

j^L(^X~. 

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PROHIBITION  ENDANGERS  FREE  SCHOOLS. 
C\'ER  since  prohibition  went  into  cITcct  in  Ala- 
'^  bama  financial  troubles  have  beset  that  state. 
Read  this  from  the  Louisville  Herald: 

Free  public  schools,  regarded  as  the  pillar  of  the 
American  republic,  will  no  longer  exist  in  Mont- 
gomery, if  the  action  of  the  Board  of  Education  is 
sustained  by  the  City  Commission. 

The  Board  of  Education  has  announced  that 
tuition  fees  will  be  charged  by  the  board  for  all 
pujjils  entering  the  schools.  They  say  this  is  neces- 
sary in  order  to  meet  current  expenses. 

There  are  many  other  cities  in  the  state  where 
the  schools  arc  only  partly  free.  In  most  of  these 
])laccs  no  fees  arc  charged  for  the  lower  grades, 
but  tuition  must  be  paid  in  the  higher  school. 
Montgomery  is  the  cai)ital  of  the  stale  of  Alabama 
and   has   3.'), 000   population. 


ANTI-SALOON  LEAGUE   "INQUISITION." 

'T'HE  extremes  to  which  "Prohibition"  will  presently 
run  if  the  sanity  of  the  people  at  large  does  not 
])ut  an  immediate  curb  upon  it  is  shown  in  a  letter 
received  by  the  New  York  Evening  Sun  from  "Her- 
man Trent,  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League,"  and  dated 
from  148  Tenafly  Road,  Englewood,  N.  J.,  in  which 
the  following  startling  declaration  occurred: 

"Speaking  now  in  my  personal  capacity,  and 
not  as  a  member  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League,  I 
will  say  that  I  regard  the  anti-liquor  crusade 
as  merely  the  beginning  of  a  much  larger  move- 
ment— a  movement  that  will  have  as  its  watch- 
word 'Efficiency  by  Government.'  If  I  had  my 
way  I  would  not  only  close  up  the  saloons  and 
the  race  tracks.  I  w^ould  close  all  tobacco  shops, 
confectionery  stores,  delicatessen  shops  and 
other  places  where  gastronomic  deviltries  are 
])urveyed— all  low  theaters  and  bathing  beaches. 
I  would  forbid  the  selling  of  gambling  devices, 
such  as  playing  cards,  dice,  checkers  and  chess 
sets;  I  would  forbid  the  holding  of  socialistic, 
anarchistic  and  atheistic  meetings;  I  would 
abolish  dancing;  I  would  abolish  the  sale  of 
coflfee  and  tea,  and  I  would  forbid  the  making 
or  sale  of  pastry,  pie,  cake  and  such  like  trash." 
The  New  York  Evening  Sun  comments  as  follows 
upon  the  fanaticism  of  this  Anti-Saloon  zealot: 

Shows  Spirit  of  Inquisition. 

"Assuredly  the  writer  of  the  above  is  not  jok- 
ing. He  is  animated  with  the  fervor  of  the 
Spanish  Liquisition  or  a  Scotch  conventicle.  He 
is  quite  sure  of  what  is  right,  or  rather  of  what 
is  wrong,  regardless  of  any  one  else's  views  and — 
vengeance  is  his,  not  the  Lord's.  As  he  cannot 
whip  or  burn  in  the  present  age,  he  would  have 
the  evil  doer  rot  in  jail. 

"These  cases  which  we  cite,  the  action  of  a 
State  Department  and  the  declaration  of  faith 
of  an  anti-saloon  zealot,  seem  to  us  to  be  highly 
instructive.  They  are  characteristic  of  the  prohi- 
bition spirit,  the  will  to  rule  the  private  lives 
of  men  and  women  with  the  iron  hand,  strictly 
for  their  own  good,  of  course,  but  without  the 
slightest  regard  to  individual  conscience  or  indi- 
vidual will.  The  prohibitive  tyranny  grows  and 
becomes  bolder  with  use,  and  each  shackle  that 
it  imposes  on  the  community  is  an  encourage- 

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ment  and  an  incentive  to  devise  another.  There 
is  no  end  to  it.  Air.  Trent  takes  pains  to  say 
that  he  speaks  for  himself  and  not  for  his 
League.  We  think  it  likely  that  few  of  his  asso- 
ciates would  be  as  sweeping  as  he,  but  all  of  his 
fads  have  their  supporters;  some  of  them  are  no 
doubt  favored  by  one  group  and  others  by 
another." 


POLICEWOMAN    ON   PROHIBITION. 

MOW,  read  this:  It  is  the  experience  of  a  poHce- 
^^  woman,  Mrs.  F.  T.  Hart,  of  xMuncic,  Ind.,  as 
she  told  it  in  an  address  at  a  recent  convention  of 
the  Municipal  League  of  Indiana,  held  at  Columbus, 
Ind.: 

"I  know  enough  about  the  people  of  Muncie  to 
tear  the  town  wide  open.  Christ  forgave  every  sin 
save  tliat  of  being  a  hypocrite. 

"Some  of  tiic  leaders  in  the  prohibition  cause  at 
Muncie  drink  wines  and  liquors  at  home,  and  then 
want  the  saloons  closed  to  keep  the  poor  man  from 
having  a  drink.  I  positively  know  and  can  prove 
that  some  of  the  leaders  of  the  prohibition  move- 
ment at  Muncie  get  drunk  and  have  been  brought 
home  drunk. 

"I  was  the  worst  prohibition  crank  in  the  country 
when  I  started  to  study  the  problem.  I  wanted  every 
saloon  closed  and  every  bit  of  liquor  confiscated.  I 
have  studied  the  problem  tiiirty-two  years,  and  now 
I  am  not  in  favor  of  prohibition  because  it  does  not 
prohibit." — Duluth  (Minn.)  Tribune. 


SUNDAY  SORE  AT  DETROIT  FOLKS. 

BILLY  SUNDAY  loves  the  cash.  The  following 
item  from  the  Detroit  Free  Press  gives  a  good 
line  on  Billy's  game. 

"Billy  Sunday  expressed  his  disappointment  in 
Detroit  at  the  services  Sunday  because  of  the  time 
it  had  taken  his  audience  to  meet  the  expenses  of 
the  revival. 

"'It  has  taken  two  weeks  longer  to  raise  monc> 
in  Detroit  than  in  any  place  I  have  been  in  twciU\ 
years,'  said  the  Fvangelist.  'Taking  the  dail> 
average,  *J00,()00  persons  have  attended  the  services, 
and  it  has  taken  them  six  weeks  to  jjive  a  nicklc 
each.  Why,  with  all  the  money  there  is  in  Detroit, 
we  ought  to  have  had  money  to  burn.' " 

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TOBACCO  GROWERS  SEE  DANGER  IN 
PROHIBITION. 

TTHE  danger  to  the  tobacco  industry  that  lurks 
behind  the  prohibition  movement  is  pointed  out 
in  a  dispatch  from  Washington  D.  C,  to  the  Greens- 
boro (N.  C.)  Daily  News. 

It  developed  here  today  that  tobacco  growers  and 
manufacturers  are  considerably  worried  over  the 
progress  the  Prohibitionists  are  making  towards 
nation-wide  prohibition.  Not  that  many  of  the 
tobacco  people  are  not  Prohibitionists.  Some  of 
the  strongest  supporters  of  state-wide  prohibition 
in  the  country  today  are  among  the  tobacco  people 
of  North  Carolina. 

Here  is  what  is  worrying  everyone  who  has  any 
interest  in  tobacco:  Should  the  Anti-Saloon  League 
be  successful,  and  they  stand  a  good  chance  to  win, 
the  Federal  Government  will  lose  at  least  $300,000,000 
each  year  which  it  now  receives  from  taxes,  penalties 
and  otherwise  from  liquor  dealers.  This  deficit  must 
be  made  up  some  way  and  the  tobacco  people  have 
a  strong  suspicion  that  they  are  to  be  made  the 
"goat." 

Each  3^ear  finds  Congress  appropriating  more 
money  than  it  did  the  year  before.  All  of  these  fine 
battleships  which  Secretary  of  the  Navy  Daniels 
urged  Congress  to  build,  costing  millions  of  dollars; 
the  thousands  of  troops  the  war  department  urged 
Congress  to  provide  for,  also  cost  barrels  of  gold 
dollars.  Therefore,  the  present  Administration  faces 
a  deficit  this  year  of  something  like  $300,000,000  and 
the  end  is  not  yet  in  siglit. 

With  nation-wide  prohibition  there  would  be  an- 
other deficit  of  $300,000,000,  and  the  tobacco  people 
fear  they  will  be  asked  to  bear  the  brunt  of  this  loss. 
This  would  force  the  manufacturers  to  boost  the 
price  of  cigarettes  and  cigars  wath  the  consequent 
result  that  people  would  stop  using  them  and  a 
slump  in  the  price  of  tobacco  would  follow  with 
great  loss  to  the  great  industry  now  constituting  a 
great  part  of  North  Carolina's  wealth. 

One  tobacco  man  declared  today  that  nation-wide 
prohibition  would  mean  that  cigars  and  cigarettes 
that  now  sell  for  five  cents  would  cost  at  least  2o 
cents  under  the  additional  tax  burden  which  they 
believe  is  sure  to  be  imposed  upon  them.  They  are 
wonde'ring,  therefore,  if  the  Prohibitionists  had  not 
better  let  well   enough   alone  and  be  satisfied  with 


state-wide   prohibition   instead    of   nation-wide   pro- 
hibition. 

North  Carolina  is  well  pleased  with  state-wide 
prohibition,  but  there  are  some  pretty  good  political 
observers  who  are  willing  to  make  a  small  bet  that 
the  state  would  go  wet  if  it  were  definitely  known 
that  none  of  the  "fire  water"  could  be  had  in  Wash- 
ington or  any  other  place  where  the  wayfaring  man 
could  quench  his  thirst. — Greenboro  (N.  C.)  Daily 
News,  December  22,  1916. 


GOMPERS  ON  PROHIBITION. 

CAMI^EL  GOMPERS,  president  of  the  American 
*^  Federation  of  Labor,  in  a  telegram  to  Peter 
SchacfFer,  president  of  the  Trades  Union  League  of 
Duluth,  Minn.,  thus  gives  his  position  on  Prohi- 
bition: 

"Replying  to  your  request  for  an  expression  of  an 
opinion  on  the  subject  of  proliibition,  beg  to  say,  as 
a  result  of  my  travels  in  several  countries,  my  ob- 
servation and  study  of  prohibition  by  law  of  the 
liquor  business  is  not  a  blessing,  as  its  advocates 
declare,  but  a  curse.  Prohibition  has  not,  and  docs 
not,  make  men  abstainers  or  even  temperate,  but  in 
addition  to  increasing  intemperance,  makes  men, 
otherwise  law-abiding,  law-breakers.  There  is  no 
power  more  potent  to  make  men  temperate,  not 
only  in  drinking,  but  in  all  things  of  life,  than  the 
organized  labor  movement,  which  secures  for  the 
workers  the  shorter  work  day,  higher  wages,  better 
working  conditions  and  better  surroundings  in  their 
homes.  The  liquor  business  requires  just  and  fair 
regulation — prohibition  is  unfair,  unjust  and  makes 
for  unfrccdom  and  is  anti-Americanism." 


BRIGHT'S  DISEASE  IN  MAINE. 

DR.  C.  F.  BOLDrAX,  director  of  the  Bureau  of 
Public  Health  F.ducation  of  the  Health  Depart- 
ment, is  respou'^iblc  for  this  statement  whic!i  lie 
bases  on  government  statistics: 

"In  twelve  years  according  to  the  phv<;ician's 
statement,  Bright's  Disease  and  Epilepsy  have  in- 
creased from  279  to  339  per  hundred  thou«sand. 
This  increase,  be  says,  has  been  greater  in  Maine, 
which  lias  had  I'roliibition  for  many  years,  than  in 
any  other  state  in  the  Union." — ^Ncw  York  Tribune. 

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AVERAGE   COST   OF   DRINK   TO   AMERICAN 
FAMILY    IS    LOW— LABOR    DEPART- 
MENT REPORTS. 

A  RECENT  dispatch  from  Washington  tells  of 
'**'  an  interesting  report  on  the  average  cost  of 
drink  to  families  that  use  intoxicating  liquors.  This 
report  was  issued  by  the  Department  of  Labor. 

Recently  the  Department  received  a  communica- 
tion from  the  National  Wholesale  Liquor  Dealers 
Association  stating  that  the  Association  had  heard 
the  Department  had  found  that  the  average  cost  a 
day  for  each  person  for  intoxicating  drink  was  4 
cents.  The  Association  wanted  to  know  about  it. 
An  investigation  was  made.  It  was  found  that  out 
of  3,260  family  budgets  examined  1,329  were  found 
to  use  intoxicants  at  an  average  cost  a  family  of 
$19.60  a  year,  - 

In  the  second  investigation,  5,284  family  budgets 
were  examined,  and  1,735  families  were  found  to 
have  spent  $29.74  a  year  each  for  intoxicating  liquor. 
In  the  third  instance  2,567  family  expenditures  were 
looked  into,  and  1,302  families  were  found  to  spend 
an  average  of  $24.53  a  year  for  intoxicants. 

These  investigations  show  an  average  cost  lower 
than  that  of  which  the  National  Wholesale  Liquor 
Dealers  Association  had  been  informed. 


"DRY"  STATES,  POOR  RELATIONS. 

TT  is  estimated  that  the  Federal  Government  will 
*  have  to  issue  bonds  from  $100,000,000  to  $200,- 
000,000  to  furnish  enough  revenue  to  meet  the 
enormous  appropriations  made  by  Congress. 

Industrial  states  and  cities  have  had  to  bear  the 
burden  of  increased  taxation  while  the  rural  districts 
have  paid  but  insignificant  taxes  to  the  Federal 
Government  under  these  new  laws. 

The  nineteen  states  now  under  Prohibition  have 
30,000,000  population  and  $46,000,000,000  in  wealth. 
These  received  larger  per  capita  appropriations  from 
Congress  last  year  than  did  the  licensed  states,  but 
they  paid  less  than  $50,000,000  of  the  $513,000,000 
collected  by  the  Commissioner  of  Internal  Revenue 
in  the  fiscal  vcar  ending  June  30,  1916. 

The  Prohibition  states  paid  $3,000,000  of  the 
$68,000,000  collected  under  the  head  of  income  tax. 

In  plain  words,  these  nineteen  states  are  the  poor 
relations  of  Uncle  Sam. 

101 


EUROPE'S  DRINK  REFORM. 

TN  a  recent  issue  of  the  Atlantic  ^Monthly,  John 
*  Koren  deals  with  the  liquor  question  as  applied 
in  the  various  nations  of  Europe  now  at  war. 

Speaking  of  the  writings  that  have  appeared  re- 
cently in  regard  to  the  effect  of  the  "war  on  alcohol," 
]Mr.  koren  said: 

"They  reveal  the  clumsy  hand  of  the  propa- 
gandist, who  does  not  hesitate  to  make  capital 
even  out  of  the  desperate  conditions. 

"The  war   measures   against   drink  abuse   are 

only    in    a    limited    sense    outcroppings    of    the 

M-orld  temperance  movement.    They  have  sprung 

from  extraordinary  circumstances  of  a  more  or 

less  temporary  character.     Instead  of  indicating 

the   high-water  mark   of  advance,   they   tend   to 

obscure  the  solid   temperance  progress,  as  well 

as  a  means  by  whicli  it  has  been  achieved;  and 

so  far  as  they  overreach   the  aim,   point   to  an 

uncomfortable  reaction." 

After   discussing    so-called    prohibition    in    Russia, 

Germany,    France   and    England,    and    showing   that 

the    slight   limitations    put    upon    liquor    are    merely 

temporary  war  measures,   Mr.   Koren,  in  conclusion, 

strikes  upon   the   keynote   of  the  underlying  fallacy 

in  a  prohibition  propaganda  when  he  says:^ 

"But  in  Europe  the  liquor  question  is  begin- 
ning to  be  used  by  tlie  politician  as  a  ladder 
wherewith  to  reach  place.  And  once  he  takes 
lip  the  yoke  of  temperance  servitude,  there  is 
apparently  no  escape.  .  .  .  Are  they  fit  to 
lead  who  regard  the  liquor  problem  as  the  one 
vital  question,  who  aver  that  the  sum  and  sub- 
stance of  human  ills  are  bound  up  in  it,  and 
therefore  demand,  even  in  the  midst  of  world 
conflagration,  that  it  must  be  given  the  rigiit  of 
way  over  all  the  problems  that  perplex  society?" 


HANLY  AGAINST  I.  AND  R. 

PROHTBITTOXTSTS  liavc  repeatedly  evaded  the 
desires  and  wishes  of  the  people  in  their  at- 
tempts to  enforce  "dry"  laws  on  them.  An  instance 
of  this  fear  of  the  people  is  the  case  of  T.  Frank 
llanly.  Hanly  in  accepting  the  nomination  as 
president  on  the  Prohibition  ticket,  repudiated  the 
initiative  and  referendum  plank  adopted  at  the  St. 
I'aul  convention.  The  initiative  and  referendum 
primarily  stands  for  rule  by  tlic  people  instead  o: 
rule  by  politicians. 

102 


PERILS  OF  PROHIBITION. 

VEARS  of  strife  and  agitation  follow  in  the  wake 
*    of  prohibition  wherever  it  is  tried. 

Maine,  after  fifty  years  of  so-called  prohibition, 
is  unable  to  cope  with  her  liquor  laws.  The  recent 
car  strike  at  Bangor,  Maine,  caused  the  resignation 
of  the  Chief  of  Police,  because  he  disagreed  with 
Maj-^or  Woodman  as  to  the  opening  of  one  hundred 
and  twenty-three  saloons  which,  to  use  the  Mayor's 
own  words,  shut  their  doors  during  the  strike  "out 
of  courtesy"  to  the  authorities. 

The  Mayor  admitted  knowledge  of  the  fact,  and 
is  quoted  as  saying  that  the  dealers  thought  it  all 
right  to  sell  with  the  strike  conditions  practically 
over. 

In  Georgia,  where  there  has  been  mock  prohibi- 
tion for  eight  years,  there  is  a  row  in  the  inner 
circles  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League.  Dr.  G.  W.  Eichel- 
berger,  state  superintendent  of  the  Anti-Saloon 
League,  charged  that  Thomas  B.  Felder,  former 
attorney  for  the  League,  was  drunk  in  the  Trans- 
portation Club.  As  a  result,  the  Atlanta  papers 
printed  charges  and  countercharges  that  made  other 
political  fights  fade  into  insignificance. 

Kansas,  the  "angel"  state  of  prohibition,  is  giving 
the  country  an  example  of  how  prohibition  pro- 
hibits in  "dry"  territory.  Of  the  166  criminal  cases 
docketed  for  a  term  of  the  Shawnee  County  District 
Court,  109  were  for  violation  of  the  prohibitory 
liquor  laws. 

Iowa,  Washington  and  Colorado  adopted  state- 
wide prohibition  in  January,  1916,  They  are  now 
paying  the  penalty.  The  cities  have  suffered  finan- 
cially. Law-abiding  citizens  have  been  branded  as 
criminals,  as  a  result  of  sensational  liquor  raids 
which  are  almost  daily  occurrences.  Published  re- 
ports of  the  amount  of  liquor  shipped  into  these 
states  show  that  there  is  more  drinking  now  than 
ever  before.  Tons  of  liquor  are  rolling  in  and 
thousands  upon  thousands  of  dollars  arc  rolling  out. 


DRUNKENNESS  IN  DES  MOINES. 

TOWA  became  officially  "dry"  January  1,  1916.  The 
^  results  of  Prohibition  are  thus  described  by  the 
Des  Moines  Evening  Tribune: 

"Rev.  J.  Edw.  Kirbye,  *Des  Moines  workingmen's 
friend,'  declared  today  that  in  his  five  years  in  Des 
Moines  he  had  never  seen  more  drunken  men  on  the 
streets  here  than  there  were  last  night." 

103 


T 


WEST  VIRGINIA  LIQUOR  CASES. 

HE  opinion  of  the  court  was  delivered  by  Chief 
Justice  White  on  January  8,  IdlT,  concurred  in 
by  all  members  of  the  court  except  Mr.  Justice 
Holmes  and  ^Ir.  Justice  Vandaventer,  who  dissented. 
The  court  holds  that  a  law  of  West  Virginia  which 
prohibits"  the  delivery  by  railroads  and  express  com- 
panies of  liquor  shipments  consigned  to  citizens  of 
that  state  for  their  personal  use  is  a  valid  law  and 
applies  to  shipments  from  points  in  other  states. 
By  the  Webb-Kenyon  Law  Congress  has  provided 
that  the  laws  of  a  state  may  apply  to  interstate 
shipments,  and  where  the  state  law  prohibits  the 
delivery  of  shipments  generally,  the  Webb-Kenyon 
Law  permits  the  state  law  to  operate,  and  to  be 
enforced  against  interstate  shipments.  The  court 
further  liolds  that  under  the  commerce  clause  of  the 
Constitution,  which  authorizes  Congress  to  regulate 
interstate  commerce,  that  Congress  may  establish  a 
general  regulation,  whereby  the  laws  of  the  par- 
ticular states  may  come  into  operation;  and  that  the 
Webb-Kenyon  Law  is  such  a  general  regulation. 
The  court  states  that  such  method  of  combined  regu- 
lation through  an  Act  of  Congress  and  state  laws, 
which  is  valid  as  to  intoxicating  liquors,  may  not  be 
valid  as  to  articles  of  commerce  other  than  intoxicat- 
ing liquors.  Liquors,  because  of  their  peculiar 
nature,  are  subject  to  special  rules  of  governmental 
regulation  and  control. 


OSCAR  UNDERWOOD  ON  PROHIBITION. 

"VOU  would  not  prevent  (by  prohibition)  the 
*  drinking  of  liquor  or  the  evils  tha  grow  out  of 
it,  but  you  would  destroy  the  supervision  of  the 
liquor  traffic  by  local  authority.  Vou  would  de- 
stroy this  revenue,  and  the  evils  of  intemperance 
would  still  exist." — Congressman  Oscar  W.  Under- 
wood, of  Alabama. 


ILLOGIC  OF  PROHIBITION. 

"MO  man  witli  sense  will  argue  that  the  spectacle 
*^  of  a  drunkard  or  a  whole  troop  of  drunkards,  in 
a  ditch,  should  be  used  as  an  argument  to  deprive 
the  wliole  race  of  the  kitully  blessing  that  makcth 
glad  tiie  heart  of  man,  saint  and  simu-r  alike." — Pi  of. 
John  Stuart  Blackic. 

104 


"DRY"  LAWS   CAUSE  BOOTLEGGING. 

ADVOCATES  of  prohibition  deny  that  it  goes 
•'*'  hand  in  hand  with  bootlegging,  yet  in  the  1916 
report  of  Hon.  Wm.  H.  Osborne,  United  States 
Commissioner  of  Internal  Revenue,  we  read: 

"No  abatement  .  .  .  appears  in  the  illegal 
sale  of  liquor  by  'bootleggers,'  and  none  may  be 
expected  unless  the  bureau  shall  receive  more 
hearty  C3-operation  on  the  part  of  local  officers 
in  the  various  states  and  localities  where  pro- 
hibition laws  exist." 
In  a  previous  report  Commissioner  Osborne  had 
this  to  say  on  the  same  subject: 

"Bootlegging  is  principally  carried  on  in  states 
operating  under  local  prohibition  laws,  and  ap- 
pears to  be  one  of  the  hardest  .propositions  that 
revenue  officers  are  called  upon  to  solve.  .  .  . 
As  the  various  states  vote  'dry'  the  operations 
of  the  bootlegger  grow  larger." 


We  cannot  decently  destroy  the  property 
or  the  rights  of  those  whose  business  Con- 
gress has  sanctioned  since  the  beginning  and 
from  whom  perhaps  a  third  of  our  Nation's 
revenue  has  been  derived.  It  would  result  in 
poverty,  lawlessness,  taxation,  and  distress. 
Where  would  we  lay  this  new  taxation? 
Would  it  be  upon  the  churches  and  charitable 
institutions,  which  are  now  exempt,  or  would 
we  lay  it  upon  the  backs  of  the  people  whom 
we  have  already  taxed  to  the  very  limit 
of  endurance?  —  REPRESENTATIVE  J. 
HAMPTON  MOORE,  of  Pennsylvania. 


DRUNKENNESS  IN  "DRY"  MAINE. 
*THE  number  of  arrests   for  drunkenness  in  "dry" 
•■•     Maine    furnish    impressive    evidence    as    to    the 
farcical  character  of  prohibition  in  that  state. 

Portland,  Maine,  with  a  population  of  only  62,241, 
had  19,874  arrests  for  drunkenness  from  January  1, 
1910,  to  January  1,  1915.  Bangor,  with  a  population 
of  24,803.  had  13,779  arrests  for  drunkenness  from 
March  1,  1909,  to  March  1,  1915. 
105 


PROHIBITION  IN  GEORGIA. 

QEO.  W.  OWENS,  president  of  the  Georgia  Bar 
^-*  Association,  in  an  address  to  that  bod3%  told 
some  of  the  results  that  followed  the  wake  of 
sumptuary  legislation. 

President  Owens  explained  present  conditions  In 
Georgia  by  stating:  "Of  late  3'ears  a  wave  of  hysteria 
has  gone  over  the  state  and  extremists  have  passed 
laws,  sumptuary  in  character  but  disguised  under 
the  veil  of  police  regulations,  which  have  not  and 
never  will  have  the  undivided  and  genuine  support 
of  the  masses  of  the  people;  private  rights  have  been 
invaded,  and  resentment  against  the  law  engendered; 
tiie  natural  result  has  been  that  the  laws  mentioned 
have  been  generally  disregarded,  and  it  was  but  a 
step  forward  from  refusing  to  obey  that  law  to  put 
at  defiance  the  more  important  laws  l)caring  on  the 
well-being,  good  order  and  dignity  of  the  state. 

"This  general  contempt  for  law  has  resulted  in 
the  most  serious  consequences  to  the  state.  Georgia 
has  had  prohibition  for  over  eight  years." 

During  this  time.  President  Owens  says  that: 
"Having  been  a  law  abiding  state  and  one  whose 
record  was  second  to  none  in  America,  we  have 
become  the  object  of  such  adverse  criticism  that 
we  are  regarded  as  being  in  a  condition  of  almost 
semi-barbarism." 


"PROHIBITION   HYPOCRISY." 

UXDER  the  heading  of  "Prohibition  Hypocrisy," 
the  Bisbee  (Ariz.)  Review  elucidates: 

In  a  newspaper  account  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
State  Temperance  Convention,  recently  concluded  in 
Phoenix,   the  following  appears: 

"The  announcement  that  the  railroad  attorneys 
had  decided  that  tiiey  would  not  attempt  to  ship 
liquor  into  the  state  was  received  with  the  greatest 
aiiplause,  in  which  the  delegates  rose  to  their  feet, 
waving  handkerchiefs  and  cheering  and  singing  the 
doxology." 

And  what  does  it  all  mean?  We  view  the  temper- 
ance host  of  Arizona  proclaiming  as  their  shibboleth: 
"No  saloons;  no  traffic  in  liquor;  but  personal  liberty 
linattackcd."  Vet  the  convention  hall  sounds  with 
a  demonstration  when  the  delegates  arc  told  that 
channels  through  which  personal  liberty  can  be  ex- 
pressed are  closed. 

106 


THE   ARMY   CANTEEN. 

T  N  1913,  according  to  the  report  of  the  Surgeon 
^  General  of  the  U.  S.,  our  "canteenless"  army  had 
a  death  rate  of  4.95  per  cent.  In  1912,  the  army 
of  Great  Britain,  with  the  canteen,  had  the  remark- 
ably low  rate  of  2.34  per  cent.  In  1910  France  had  a 
rate  of  3.01  per  cent  in  her  military  forces.  In  1911 
the  Prussian  army  death  rate  was  2.0.  The  Bavarian 
rate  in  the  same  year  was  1.9  per  cent. 

In  all  of  the  four  countries  last  mentioned,  the 
use  of  wines,  whiskey  and  beer  were  permitted  in 
the  army,  but  in  no  case  was  the  death  rate  as  high 
as  in  the  United  States.  Similar  conditions  of  serv- 
ice occurred  in  practically  all  of  the  countries  named. 
Where  then  is  the  evil  of  the  canteen?  Evidently, 
if  any  conclusion  is  to  be  drawn  from  these  figures, 
it  should  be  that  the  presence  of  malt  and  spirituous 
beverages  has  aided  in  sustaining  life  in  the  armies 
of  Europe. 

The  Stars  and  Stripes  have  been  successfully 
carried  over  many  battle  fields  in  many  wars  since 
the  birth  of  our  nation.  Our  soldiers  won  the  Revo- 
lutionary War;  they  won  the  war  of  1812;  the  Civil 
War;  the  Mexican  War,  and  the  Spanish-American 
War.  Throughout  all  of  these  campaigns  the  can- 
teen was  carried  well  supplied  with  whiskey. 
Whiskey  was  part  of  the  daily  ration  of  the  troops. 
The  United  States  of  America  through  their  armies 
has  always  been  successful.  We  know  what  we  can 
do  with  whiskey,  but  we  do  not  know  what  we  can 
do  without  it.  Since  all  good  judgment  is  based  upon 
experience  and  the  evidence  at  hand,  upon  what 
contention  can  the  prohibitionist  base  his  claim  that 
the  efficiency  of  our  fighting  force  would  be  pro- 
moted by  enforcing  prohibition  in  the  army  and 
navy?  

PROHIBITION  MAKES  CRIMINALS. 

"THE  Jackson  (Miss.)  News,  under  the  heading, 
*■    "Breeding  Liars  and  Perjurers,"  remarks: 

"Although  Mississippi  is  officially  'dry,'  the  painful 
fact  remains  that  lots  of  people  in  this  state  still 
have  a  thirst. 

"One  fact  stands  so  boldly  that  'even  a  way- 
faring man,  though  he  be  a  fool,'  ought  to  have 
sense  enough  to  comprehend: 

"The  new  liquor  law  is  making  criminals  out  of 
people  who  have  hitherto  been  respectable  and  law 
abiding." 

107 


LIQUOR    BUSINESS    AND    TAXES. 

TTHE  liquor  business  has  resisted  all  the  assaults 
against  it,  not  because  of  a  few  people  who 
desire  to  sell  liquor,  but  because  of  the  millions  of 
the  American  public  who  desire  to  use  liquors. 

Remember  that  the  United  States  Government 
and  the  government  of  every  individual  state  in  the 
Union  is  in  partnership  with  the  liquor  business. 
The  United  States  demands  and  accepts  a  percentage 
of  the  profits,  but  contributes  nothing  to  the  invest- 
ment and  pays  no  part  of  the  expenses  of  the  busi- 
ness. 

The  liquor  industry  Is  the  fifth  largest  industry 
in  the  nation,  paying  over  a  quarter  of  a  billion  of 
dollars  taxes  annually,  which  amount  is  over  one- 
third  of  the  total  income  of  the  United  States  Gov- 
ernment. These  same  taxes  paid  the  bulk  of  the 
pensions  resulting  from  the  Civil  War.  These  same 
taxes  helped  build  the  Panama  Canal;  hclr>ed  build 
our  navy  and  army,  and  are  instrumental  in  all  the 
vast  workings  of  tiie  National  Government. 

The  prohibitionist  docs  not  offer  a  substitute  for 
the  loss  of  tliis  vast  sum. 

Where  will  the  deficit  be  made  up? 

Who  will  have  to  make  it  up? 

Prohibition  Avould  destroy  investments,  proper- 
ties and  good  will — amounting  to  billions  wiliiout 
compensating  the  owner.  Prohibition  would  rob  the 
Government  of  over  one-third  its  income  without 
making  up  the  deficit  that  will  follow. 

All  this  to  satisfy  a  fanatical  desire  on  the  part 
of  a  well-paid,   agitating  minority. 


SAYS  VICE  FOLLOWED  "BILLY." 

FORBID  a  man  to  do  a  certain  thing,  and  if  there 
is  any  red  blood  in  his  veins,  he  will  do  that  very 
thing  just  to  prove  that  he  is  a  frcc-born  Ameri- 
can citizen.  The  following  news  itcni  from  the 
Boston  (Mass.)  Post  illustrates  this  point: 

"Alorc  liquor  was  sold  in  Philadelphia  during  and 
directly  after  the  Billy  Sunday  campaign  there  than 
at  any  other  time  in  the  history  of  tiie  city,  accord- 
ing to  Rev.  Oscar  B.  Hawcs.  Mr.  Hawcfi  was  the 
pastor  of  the  Germantown  I'nitarian  Church,  Phila- 
delphia, during  the  Sunday  revivals  in  that  city. 

"Vice  increased  durii^.jT  Sunday's  stay  in  Phila- 
delphia,' said  Mr.  Ilawcs." 

109 


GREAT  MEN  AND  TEMPERANCE. 

T  S  it  not  strange  that  wet  England  produced  a 
*•  Shakespeare,  wet  Germany  a  Schiller,  a  Bis- 
marck, wet  America  a  Jefferson,  a  Washington  and 
a  Lincoln,  while  prohibition  Turkey  never  produced 
a  single  great  man  in  all  the  centuries  since  Mo- 
hammed? 

Its  religion  and  civilization  both  rest  upon  pro- 
hibition. The  beer-drinking  Bulgars  were  more 
than  a  match  for  the  dry  Turks.  There  is  today 
not  a  single  example  of  superior  manhood  in  the 
Turkish  Empire.  The  prohibition  Turks  trail  at  the 
tail  end  of  civilization.  They  are  inferior  in  every- 
thing except  bigotry,  brutality  and  ignorance.  Pro- 
hibition has  utterly  failed  to  elevate  the  standard  of 
manhood  and  morality  in  the  only  country  in  the 
world  where  it  is  a  success. 

It  is  a  matter  of  history  that  very  few  really 
great  men  were  total  abstainers.  Men  of  character 
and  ability,  like  Gladstone,  Asquith  and  Salisbury; 
giants  of  intellect  like  Carlyle,  Macaulay,  Tennyson, 
Bismarck,  Milton,  Shakespeare,  Luther,  Bunyan, 
Wellington,  Pitt,  Socrates,  Napoleon,  Darwin,  Dick- 
ens, and  a  host  of  others,  were  temperate,  but  not 
total  abstainers. 


MARTIAL  LAW  IN  "DRY"  TOWN. 

npHE  ensuing  is  an  Associated  Press  Dispatch 
-■■  from  Columbus,  Ga.,  to  the  Nashville  Tennessean: 
The  militia  has  taken  charge  of  the  situation  at 
Girard,  Ala.,  where  special  deputies  under  M.  S. 
Baughan,  of  Atlanta,  special  law  agent  for  the 
Attorney-General  of  Alabama,  raided  twelve  places 
and  confiscated  many  thousand  dollars  worth  of 
liquor  held  in  violation  of  Alabama's  Prohibition 
laws. 


LABOR   EDITORS   AGAINST   PROHIBITION. 

P  EPRESKNTATIVE  labor  editors  in  convention 
^^  assembled  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  during  the  past 
summer,  adopted  the  following  resolution: 

"Resolved,  That  we  tender  our  moral  support  to 
those  workers,  who  are  now  menaced  by  these 
would-be  saviors,  whose  only  desire,  to  our  mind, 
is  to  lower  the  standard  of  wages  and  lessen  the 
opportunities  for  employment  by  adding  to  the  army 
of  the  unemployed;  and  that  we  do  all  in  our  power 
to  obliterate  this  hysteria  of  prohibition." 


HOMICIDES  AND  PROHIBITION. 

A  RECENT  issue  of  the  Spectator,  an  insurance 
**■  journal,  contains  a  resume  of  the  homicide  records 
of  thirty-one  leading  American  cities  for  1915.  Al- 
though only  four  of  these  cities  were  "dry"  during 
that  year,  this  quartet  holds  first,  second,  third  and 
fourth  places  in  disgrace!  Memphis,  Tenn.,  is  first 
on  the  list  with  85.9  murders  per  hundred  thousand 
population.  Atlanta  and  Savannah,  Ga.,  rank  second 
and  third,  respectively,  with  records  of  35.9  and  32.3, 
while  Nashville,  Tenn.,  is  fourth  with  29.4  murders 
per  hundred  thousand  inhabitants. 

"Wet"  Cities  Law-Abiding. 

The  city  with  the  best  record  of  all  is  Reading, 
Pa.,  a  "wet"  town.  It  had  only  1.9  homicides  to  every 
hundred  thousand  persons.  Contrast  this  record 
with  that  of  Prohibition  Memphis  and  the  Prohibi- 
tion platitude  that  the  licensed  saloon  is  the  funda- 
mental source  of  crime  flounders  on  the  reef  of 
facts. 

Cincinnati,  which  the  intemperate  and  self-styled 
"Temperance"  advocates  have  dubbed  "the  Gateway 
to  Hell,"  is  tenth  on  the  list,  far  below  any  of  the 
cities  that  Prohibition  has  "saved."  Chicago  is 
fifteenth,  New  York  twenty-third,  and  Milwaukee, 
"the  City  of  Breweries,"  twenty-eighth,  with  the 
startling  low  rate  of  3.3. 


WATTERSON  ON  PROHIBITION. 

"JVAARSK"  TIKNRV  WATTERSON.  editor  of  the 
*''*  Louisville    Courier-Journal,    in    expressing    his 
Opinion     of    the     Hobson     Nation-wide     Prohibition 
Bill,  declared: 

"The  bill  ought  to  be  entitled,  'An  act  to  abolish 
resj^onsiblc  and  representative  government  and  to 
establish  at  Washington  a  centralized  despotism 
laid  in  puritanic  hypocrisy  and  supported  by  the  spy 
system.'  " 


MINCE  PIES  PROHIBITED. 

BRANDY  used  in   iniiicc  pio^  is  tiow  prohibited  in 
Windsor,   Canada,   says   the   Pctroit    Free   Press. 
"As   a   result   of  a   ruling   of   the  Ontario    License 
Board,  plum  puddings,  mince  pies  and  other  Christ- 
mas   delicacies    of    Windsor    citizens    will    be    minus 
brandy  sauce  this  year." 

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FACE  $180,000  DEFICIT. 

rvULUTH,  MINN.,  is  undergoing  the  hardships 
*-^  that  have  been  endured  by  other  cities  which 
aboHshed  saloons  and  the  revenue  that  the  saloons 
give.     The  Cincinnati  Enquirer  states: 

"Facing  a  reduction  of  $180,000  in  the  income  of 
1917,  due  to  the  city  having  gone  'dry,*  is  the  reason 
given  by  the  authorities  of  Duluth,  Minn.,  for  failing 
to  indicate  whether  that  municipality  will  be  repre- 
sented at  the  convention  of  the  National  Alliance  of 
Legal  Aid  Societies  in  Cincinnati." 


D 


PROHIBITION  RAISES  TAXES. 

RY  IOWA  is  experiencing  the  financial  results 
of  Prohibition.     The  Omaha  Bee  says: 

"The  City  council  of  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  will 
meet  this  afternoon  and  fix  a  tax  levy  for  1917. 
The  levy  will  have  the  distinction  of  being  the 
largest  ever  made  in  the  history  of  the  city. 

"Last  year,  to  meet  part  of  the  deficiencies  brought 
about  by  the  closing  of  the  saloons,  the  levy  was 
raised  to  47^.  This,  with  state,  county  and  schools, 
raised  the  general  levy  on  all  city  property  to 
105.3  mills."  

WOULD  CENSOR  NEWSPAPERS. 

'THE  Shawnee  County  W.  C.  T.  U.  yesterday 
*  unanimously  resolved  to  take  steps  to  have  news- 
paper reporters  prohibited  from  reporting  sensa- 
tional court  trials  in  the  daily  papers  of  this  state; 
to  add  a  number  of  soft  drinks  to  the  black  list; 
and  to  thank  Gov.  Arthur  Capper  for  his  "vigorous 
enforcement  of  the  prohibition  and  anti-cigarette 
laws." — Topeka  (Kan.)  Capital. 


DRUGS  AND  PROHIBITION. 

IN"  an   interview   in    the   Denver    (Colo.)    Post,   the 
Right    Rev.    C.    H.    Brant,    Episcopal    Bishop,    of 
Manila,  said: 

"In  the  southern  states  where  prohibition  has 
almost  become  universal,  the  increase  in  the  sale  of 
drugs  per  capita  is  greater  than  the  increase  in 
population.  The  legitimate  amount  of  opium  cal- 
culated as  absolutely  necessary  for  medical  and 
commercial  purposes  for  one  year's  consumption  is 
60,000  pounds.  Last  year  over  480,000  pounds  were 
brought  into  the  United  States  through  the  Custom 
House." 

Ill 


WANTED;  ANTI-SALOON  LEAGUE  MEMBER. 
CUBSTAXTIAL  preniimns  have  been  offered  at 
•^  various  times  for  a  real,  live,  sure-enough  mem- 
ber of  the  Anti-Saloon  League. 

Wonderful  that  an  organization  so  boastful  of  Its 
prowess — so  vaunting  of  its  dire  ability  to  make  and 
unmake  statesmen — to  destroy  political  parties  and 
overturn  the  universe  generally,  cannot  produce  a 
single  bona  fide  member,  even   for  a  liberal  reward. 

We  want  a  member — want  his  photograph;  would 
like  to  put  him  in  a  glass  cage  and  exhibit  him  at  so 
much  per — but  thus  far  we  have  been  unable  to 
corral  a  single  specimen.  We  will  feel  obliged  to 
raise  our  bid  presently.  Perhaps  that  is  what  our 
wily  friends  want  us'  to  do. 

We  are  not  hard  to  please.  All  we  want  is  just 
one  member.  We  would  be  made  happy  if  wc  could 
capture  even  a  very  little  member — provided  he  could 
show  membership  qualifications. 


SALOONIST    COMPENSATED. 

'"TIII^  Supreme  Court  of  Montana  has  handed  down 
^  an  opinion  holding  that  a  saloonist's  property 
cannot  be  destroyed  witiiout  compensation  except  as 
a  last  resort.  The  Court  in  awarding  the  saloonist 
compensation  for  licpior  destroyed  when  he  failed 
to  comply  with  the  martial  laws  imposed  by  militia- 
men, said : 

"Cndcr  constitutional  government,  such  as  ours, 
the  destruction  of  private  property  without  compen- 
sation to  the  owner  must  be  the  last  resort,  available 
only  in  the  presence  of  imminent  and  overwhelming 
necessity  which  books  no  delay." 


LIQUOR  CONSUMPTION  INCREASES. 

A  CCORDIXG  to  tlie  rci-ort  of  the  United  States 
^  Internal  Revenue  Commissioner,  the  per  capita 
I  onsumption  of  beer,  wine  and  whiskey  (in  gallons) 
has  steadily  increased.  In  18.')0,  when  Prohibition 
was  unknown,  the  average  consumption  for  each 
individual  was  only  4.S  gallons.  Today  this  con- 
sumption has  more  than  quadrupled. 

While  nineteen  states  were  dry  at  the  time  of  the 
last  report  of  the  Commissioner,  the  fiscal  year 
ending  June  30,  1916,  shows  an  increase  in  the  tax 
receipts  over  lOlT)  of  more  than  $13,000,000  on  dis- 
tilled spirits  alone. 

112 


THE  DAY  OF  THE  BOOTLEGGER. 

•THESE  are  indeed  the  days   of  the  "baotlepecer/* 
'■    These   are   the   times  when   you   have   reason    to 
suspect  everything  transported  into  every  commun- 
ity of  any  or  all  dry  states. 

Now  are  the  times  when  the  harmless  watch  may 
be  the  container  of  the  alcohol  to  make  "near-beer" 
real  beer;  when  the  old  jug  left  at  the  roadside 
seemingly  abandoned,  may  be  intended  to  be 
"found"  by  some  one  to  whom  its  expected  contents 
will  be  most  welcome;  when  every  huckster  driving 
over  city  or  state  lines  may  be  viewed  with  sus- 
picion that  his  measures  bear  false  bottoms*  when 
in  brief  even  undertakers  ship  coffins  to  brother 
undertakers  as  containers  of  things  other  than  the 
soon  to  be  departed. 

A  reign  of  open  defiance  of  law,  laughed  at  if  not 
openly  abetted  by  otherwise  law-abiding  citizens,  is 
with  us  as  never  before. — Felix  J.  Koch,  in  the  Rail- 
road Trainmen. 

SPECIAL  LIQUOR  TRAINS. 

AN  idea  of  the  great  quantities  of  liquor  being 
''*■  consumed  in  prohibition  territory  is  given  by 
the  following  despatch  from  Charleston,  W.  Va.,  to 
the  Pierre  (S.  Dak.)  Journal: 

"Orders  issued  by  the  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  Rail- 
road announced  the  creation  of  two  special  trains 
beginning  tomorrow  on  which  persons  carrying 
legally  labeled  liquor  will  be  permitted  to  travel. 
The  trains  will  move  each  Tuesday,  Thursday  and 
Saturday  between  Ashland,  Ky.,  and  Charleston." 


EXPOSITION  VISITORS  VERY  TEMPERATE. 

COMETHING  in  the  stimulating  air  of  California 
*^  or  the  fascinating  nature  of  the  Exposition  just 
closed  furnished  the  nearly  19,000,000  visitors  with 
excitement  a  plenty,  for  the  San  Francisco  Chronicle 
records  less  than  100  police  court  cases  on  the 
charge  of  drunkenness.  The  Chronicle  does  not 
account  for  this  abstemiousness,  but  merely  implies 
a  certain  astonishment,  for  it  declares  "liquor  was 
sold  from  one  end  of  the  grounds  to  the  other." 

In  absolute  figures,  out  of  a  total  of  18,875,974 
visitors  during  the  Exposition  period,  just  83  were 
arrested  by  the  guards  for  intoxication. — Literary 
Digest. 

113 


CONSUMPTION  OF  LIQUOR. 

HTHE  1916  report  of  the  Commissioner  of  Internal 
Revenue  shows  how^  little  effect  prohibition  had 
on  the  consumption  of  distilled  liquors.  After  noting 
the  large  amounts  of  alcohol  withdrawn,  tax  free, 
for  export  and  for  denaturing,  the  report  states  that 
there  was  an  increase  of  11,527,044  gallons  in  tax 
payments  of  distilled  liquors  in  the  fiscal  year  1916 
as  compared  with  the  previous  year.  This  is  an  in- 
crease of  9  per  cent  in  liquor  intended  for  con- 
sumption. 

An  even  greater  increase  is  shown  in  tiic  present 
fiscal  year,  according  to  tlic  monthly  reports  issued 
by  the  Commissioner's  office.  For  the  first  four 
months — July,  August,  September  and  October — tax 
paid  withdrawals  of  distilled  liquor  for  consumption 
have  been  7,395, 537  gallons  greater  than  in  the  corre- 
sponding four  months  of  the  previous  fiscal  year. 
This  is  an  increase  of  over  18  per  cent. 


A  WOMAN'S   EXPERIENCE   IN   OKLAHOMA. 

I  X  a  letter  to  the  editor  of  the  Sacramento  (Calif.) 
*  Bee,  Mrs.  A.  A.  Gaylor,  for  twenty-four  years  a 
resident  of  Oklahoma,  tells  of  tlie  increased  crime 
in  that  state  as  a  result  of  Prohibition.  Mrs. 
Gaylor,  now  a  resident  of  Sacramento,  writes: 

"Without  exaggeration  it  can  be  said  that  more 
men  and  women  were  hauled  to  jail  for  bootlegging 
and  running  dives  and  other  offenses  since  the 
prohibition  law  went  into  effect  than  during  the 
entire  time  Oklahoma  was  in  the  wet  co4unm. 

"Knowing  these  things,  I  would  rather  have  the 
wide  open  saloon  than  the  infernal  bootlegger." 


CRIME  INCREASES  IN  "DRY"  KANSAS. 

THERE  were  6,05S  prisoners  in  Kansas  iails  in  the 
fiscal  year  from  July  1,  1915,  to  July  1  191»3,  and 
2.505  divorces  granted  in  the  state  according  to  a 
report  compiled  by  J.  W.  Howe,  secretary  of  the 
State  Board  of  Control,  from  statements  of  the 
clerks  of  the  District  courts  in  the  state.  This  shows 
an  increase  of  186  prisoners  in  jail  and  185  divorces 
over  a  year  ago.  Tiie  report  states  that  there  were 
925  liquor  convictions. — St.  Joseph  (Mo.)  News 
Press, 

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"RUM"  A  MERE  VULGARISM. 

IWIR.  OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES  was  one  of 
^'*  the  clearest  thinkers  of  his  day,  and  one  of  the 
most  valued  contributors  to  American  literature. 

He  detested  prohibition,  as  he  did  every  other 
form  of  bigotry  and  hypocrisy  founded  upon  fallacy. 
When  a  second  attempt  was  made  to  fasten  prohibi- 
tion on  his  state  (Massachusetts)  after  the  law  had 
been  tested  and  repealed,  Dr.  Holmes  was  one  of  the 
leaders  in  the  fight  against  it.  His  opinions  on  this 
question  are  well  expressed  in  his  "Autocrat  of  the 
Breakfast  Table,"  when  he  referred  to  the  French 
wine  with  enthusiasm,  and  in  reply  to  the  divinity 
student's  question  if  he  believed  in  a  diet  of  rum, 
makes  the  old  autocrat  say: 

"Rum,  I  take  to  be  the  name  which  unwashed 
moralists  apply  alike  to  the  product  distilled 
from  molasses  and  the  noblest  juices  of  the 
vineyard.  Burgundy,  'in  all  its  sunset  glow' 
is  rum.  Champagne,  'soul  of  the  foaming  grape 
of  Eastern  France,'  is  rum.  Hock,  which  our 
friend,  the  poet,  speaks  of  as: 
"  'The    Rhine's    breast-milk,    gushing    cold  and 

bright, 
Pale  as  the  moon  and  maddening  as  her  light'," 
is  rum.  Sir,  I  repudiate  the  loathsome  vulgarism 
as  an  insult  to  the  first  miracle  wrought  by  the 
Founder  of  our  religion.  I  believe  in  temperance, 
nay,  almost  in  abstinence,  for  healthy  people. 
I  trust  that  I  practice  both.  But  let  me  tell  you 
there  are  companies  of  men  of  genius  into 
which  I  sometimes  go,  where  the  atmosphere  of 
intellect  and  sentiment  is  so  much  more  stimulat- 
ing than  alcohol,  that  if  I  thought  fit  to  take  wine 
it  would  be  to  keep  me  sober.  Among  the  gentle- 
men I  have  known,  few,  if  any,  were  ruined  by 
drinking.  My  few  drunken  acquaintances  were 
generally  ruined  before  they  became  drunkards. 
The  habit  of  drinking  is  often  a  vice,  no  doubt 
— sometimes  a  misfortune — as  when  an  almost 
irresistible  hereditary  propensity  exists  to  in- 
dulge in  it — but  oftenest  of  all  a  punishment." 
The  old  autocrat  then  remarked: 

"Men  get  intoxicated  with  music,  with  poetry, 
with  religious  excitement,  oftenest  with  love. 
Ninone  de  I'Enclos  said  she  was  so  easily  excited 
that  her  soup  intoxicated  her,  and  convalescents 
have  been  made  tipsy  by  a  beefsteak." 

115 


THE  CONSUMMATION. 

[Louisville  Courier-Journal.] 

Teeter,  tauter,  milk  and  water — 
Nothing  that  you  hadn't  jouter — 
For  reform  is  running  high, 
And  the  world  is  growing  dry, 
Laws  for  each  infirmity 
Substitutes  for  vertebrae. 

Wickedness  shall  go  and  stay; 

Adam's  son  nor  Eve's  fair  daughter 
Shall  a  loop-hole  find  to  stray — 

Teeter  tauter,  milk  and  water! 

Everything  shall  be   forbidden — 
Raise  the  fence  and  clap  the  lid  on! 
Strength  of  muscle  is  attained 
By  its  use,  we've  heard  explained — 

Strength  of  mind's  another  story, 
Lassitude's   the  road  to  glory, 
Leave  no  chance  to  be  a  sinner — 
From  the  weakest  pick  the  winner! 

Self-restraint  has  had  its  call, 

Lots  o'  folks  have  none  at  all; 

Like  dumb  sheep  they're  led  to    slaughter. 

Other  poems  there  may  be, 

In    a   more   convincing  key, 

This  alone's   enough    for   me — 
Teeter,  tauter,  milk  and  water! 

Edward  X.  Barrett. 


The  great  moral  issues  which  have  con- 
fronted the  world  have  not  been  v/orked  out 
at  the  point  of  the  sword  or  with  the  force 
of  the  governments  behind  them.  The  pro- 
gress that  the  world  has  made  in  morality 
comes  from  the  heart,  following  the  teachings 
of  God,  and  not  from  the  force  of  men. — 
REPRESENTATIVE  OSCAR  W.  UNDER- 
WOOD, of  Alabama. 


NATIONAL  PROHIBITION  A  FARCE. 

T  TNDER  National  rrohibition  the  Government 
^  would  recognize  the  right  of  the  individual  to 
operate  his  own  still,  and  the  mountaineer  could 
distill  his  corn  without  interference.  However,  the 
making  of  whisky  would  not  be  confined  to  the 
mountains  nor  to  the  mountaineers.  Under  the  law 
everyone  would  have  the  right  to  make  wine,  beer, 
brandy,  whisk}'-  or  hard  cider,  and  it  is  not  difficult 
to  make  these  beverages. 

To  make  whisky  from  sugar  all  that  is  needed  is 
a  tin  pan  in  which  to  ferment  the  liquor,  a  tea 
kettle  and  a  yard  of  rubber  hose. 

The  making  of  wine  and  cider  is  so  simple  that  a 
recipe  would  be  superfluous. 

For  those  who  have  no  skill  in  the  preparation  of 
even  the  simplest  beverages  there  is  the  probability 
that  supplies  will  be  forthcoming  through  the  co- 
operative plan. 

Lawyers  say  that  if  one  citizen  will  have  the 
right  to  make  liquors,  then  two  or  more  citizens  will 
have  the  right  to  imite  in  the  making  of  liquors, 
either  personally  or  through  agents. 

Thus  it  may  be  that  those  who  do  not  care  to 
embark  personally  in  the  manufacture  of  wine,  beer 
or  whisky  can  obtain  these  liquors  by  buying  stock 
in  co-operative  breweries,  wineries  and  distilleries. 


CLOGS  WHEELS  OF  PROGRESS. 

"CHOW  me  a  state  where  the  liquor  question  is 
•^  ever  dominant  that  is  not  merely  marking  time 
commercially,  and  I  will  concede  I  am  in  error. 
What  of  forward-looking  legislation  have  Georgia, 
Tennessee,  Mississippi,  Oklahoma,  North  Carolina, 
West  Virginia,  Maine,  or  North  Dakota  put  on  the 
statute  books  in  the  past  ten  years?" — Hon.  Ben- 
jamin Sellig  Washer. 


ONE  IN  TWENTY  ARRESTED. 

TS  liquor  the  cause  of  crime?      Read  this  from  the 
^  Topeka  (Kan.)   State  Journal: 

"The  total  number  of  arrests  made  by  the  Topeka 
police  department  during  the  year  of  1915  was  equal 
to  one-twentieth  of  the  population  of  Topeka.  2,142 
arrests  were  made." 

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DON'T!  1  ! 

Don't 

Drink  the  drinks  you  want  to  drink, 

Xor  think  the  thoughts  you  want  to  think! 

Don't 

Eat  the  food  you  want  to  cat, 

Nor  meet  the  folks  you  want  to  meet! 

Don't 

Smoke  the  smokes  you  want  to  smoke, 
Nor  joke  the  jokes  you  Avant  to  joke! 

Don't 

Swear  the  way  you  want  to  swear, 
Nor  air  the  views  you  want  to  air! 

Don't 

Spend  the  cash  you  want  to  spend. 
Nor  bend  the  ways  you  want  to  bend! 

Don't 

Go  the  pace  you  want  to  go. 

Nor  know  the  things  you  want  to  know! 

Don't 

Get  the  stuff  you  want  to  get, 
Nor  bet  the  wad  you  want  to  bet! 

Don't 

See  tlie  sights  you  want  to  see. 
Nor  be  the  sort  you  want  to  be! 

Don't 

Die  as  you  would  want  to  die, 
And  you'll  be  happy  by  and  by! 

— W.  J.  Lampton,  in  "Life." 


"JUSTICE  ALWAYS." 

'*[  T  is  of  great  importance  to  a  republic  not  only  to 
guard  society  against  the  oppression  of  its  rulers, 
but  to  guard  one  part  of  society  against  the  oppres- 
sion of  the  other.  Justice  is  the  end  of  government; 
it  is  the  cud  of  civil  society." — James  Madison. 

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A  PROHIBITION   TOMBSTONE. 

CISTERSVILLE,  WEST  VIRGINIA,  on  the  B. 
*-^  &  O.  R.  R.,  and  Ohio  River  (47  miles  from 
Parkersburg  and  Wheeling),  in  one^  of  the  richest 
agricultural  districts  in  the  world,  in  a  region  of 
highly  productive  grain  and  dairy  farms  and  diversi- 
fied crops  and  constant  prosperity,  offers  this  solid 
brick  and  concrete  plant  to  any  manufacturer  or 
wholesale  house.  This  plant  was  formerly  the 
Sistersville  Brewery  and  has  been  vacated  as  it  is  in 
dry  territory. 

The  plant  is  less  than  ten  years  old;  cost  $150,000 
to  build;  covers  one  acre  of  ground;  is  equipped 
with  ice  plant,  and  has  an  elevator  shaft.  A  rail- 
road siding  is  In,  and  every  part  of  the  building  is 
in  first  class  shape.  The  four-story  building, 
119  ft.  X  53  ft.  together  with  the  tw^o-story  addition, 
130  ft.  X  31  ft.,  contains  approximately  26,000  square 
feet  of  available  floor  space;  this  does  not  include 
the  one-story  office  building,  23  ft.  x  29  ft. 

This  beautiful  plant  is  offered  to  any  manufactur- 
ing concern,  rent  free,  for  a  term  of  years,  depend- 
ing upon  the  nature  of  the  enterprise.  Write  or 
\v-ire  for  further  information,  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, Sistersville,  W.  Va. — From  circular  issued  by 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  Sistersville,  West  Virginia. 


JOHN  QUINCY  ADAMS  ON  PERSONAL 
FREEDOM. 
"CORGET  not,  I  pray  you,  the  right  of  personal 
^  freedom.  Self-government  is  the  foundation  of 
all  our  political  and  social  institutions.  Seek  not  to 
enforce  upon  your  brother  by  legislative  enactment 
the  virtue  that  he  can  possess  only  by  the  dictates  of 
his  own  conscience  and  the  energy  of  his  will." — 
John  Quincy  Adams. 


THOMAS  JEFFERSON  ON  COERCION. 

'"yELL  any  man  he  shall  not  do  a  thing  or  have  a 
■''     thing,  and  that  thing  becomes  the  very  one  he 
wishes  to  do  or  have." — Thomas  Jefferson. 


RESENT  THE  MUZZLE. 

"T  ET  us  be  Christian  men  of  moderation  in  drink 

*-*  as  In  all  other  things;  but  do  not  let  us  permit 

others  to  put  a  muzzle  on  us  as  they  do  on  dogs." — 

Rt.  Rev.  P.  J.  Donahoe,  Bishop  of  Wheeling,  W.  Va. 

119 


LIMITS  AMERICAN  LIBERTY. 

^'PROHIBITION  limits  the  spirit  of  American 
-■■  liberty.  It  holds  the  menace  of  old  slaveries, 
cast-off  prejudices,  mental  and  physical,  that  we  in 
this  country  have  long  outgrown.  It  is  warming 
back  into  pestilent  life  and  activity  those  old  snakes 
— scotched,  not  killed! — of  Hatred,  Proscription, 
Bigotry,  Fear!  For  in  the  simplest  terms,  what  is 
Prohibition?  A  giving  play  to  that  ineradicable 
passion  for  regulating  and  controlling  and  tyranniz- 
ing over  the  lives  of  others  which  so  many  men 
cherish  in  the  name  of  godliness.  It  was  this  spirit 
— and  no  other! — which  framed  the  dungeons  and 
devised  the  tortures  of  the  Inquisition.  Prohibition 
has  many  pious  sponsors  in  the  present,  and  in  the 
past  it  had  a  patron  no  less  illustrious  than  the  Duke 
of  Alva." — Michael  Monaham,  Editor  Phoenix  Maga- 
zine.   

CRIME  AND  PROHIBITION. 

'T'HE  following  view  of  Prosecuting  Attorney 
^  Henry  Simms,  of  Huntington,  \V.  Va.,  who  was 
elected  on  a  "dry"  tickot,  was  expressed  to  the 
Huntington  Herald-Despatch: 

"Liquor  cuts  a  smaller  figure  in  crime  than  most 
persons  believe.  In  80%  of  criminal  cases  in  Cabell 
County,  liquor  had  no  connection.  Crime  has  in- 
creased since  the  Yost  Prohibition  law  went  into 
effect,  and  the  police*  and  prosecutor's  office  have 
had  mere  to  do  since  that  time." 


QUESTION  FOR  THE  INDIVIDUAL. 

"T^HE  question  of  abstinence  or  non-abstinence  is 
*"     one  which  can  be  settled  only  by  the  individual 
conscience." — Archdeacon  I-'arrar. 


'AND  LIGHT  THE  WORLD  WITH  GAS." 

How  well  it  is  the  sun  and  moon 
Are  placed  so  very  high 
That  no  presuming  man  can  reach 
To  pluck  them  from  the  sky. 

If  'twere  not  so  I  do  believe 

That  some  reforming  ass 

Would  soon  attempt  to  pluck  them  down 

And  light  the  world  with  gas! 

— Princeton  Review,  About  1853. 
1:0 


FREEDOM  OF  CHOICE. 

OUR  religion  is  based  on  freedom  of  choice.  It  is 
for  us  to  choose  between  bad  or  good,  according 
to  our  definition  of  the  same.  Men  and  women 
cannot  be  legislated  into  Goodness  nor  into  Sal- 
vation. 

If  we  lose  control  of  ourselves  the  mind  and  body 
run  riot.  Self-control,  combined  with  temperance 
in  the  individual,  is  the^  basis  of  society's  moral 
success.      Prohibition  begins  at  the  wrong  end. 

The  Prohibitionist  believes,  "Law,  then  public 
sentiment" — whether  or  no.  It  is  the  great  cry 
of  the  Prohibitionists  that  they  are  going  to  alleviate 
all  our  sufferings  and,  by  doing  away  with  liquor, 
make  this  earth  a  second  Paradise.  They  wrongly 
accuse  liquor  of  being  the  great  cause  of  distress  and 
suffering.  With  their  own  peculiar  ideas  of  liberty 
and  freedom  they  are  going  to  reform  us  regardless 
of  our  own  particular  desires  in  the  matter.  They 
are  going  to  attempt  the  absurdity  of  making  men 
good  by  legislation. 

It  has  always  been  an  acknowledged  right  that 
freedom  of  choice  be  granted  to  all  as  long  as  the 
exercise  of  this  right  in  no  way  conflicted  with  the 
right  of  others.  How  can  the  Prohibitionist  stand 
up  and  tell  us  that  by  taking  a  drink  man  infringes 
upon  the  rights  of  others?  By  preventing  man  from 
freedom  of  choice  in  the  matter  of  drink  the  Prohi- 
bitionist violates  his  right  by  destroying  his  freedom. 


PROHIBIT  TOBACCO  ADVERTISING? 

TTHE  Jackson   (Aliss.)   News  sees  in   the  attempts 
to    prohibit    liquor    advertising,    the    birth    of    a 
similar  movement  against  the  advertising  of  tobacco. 
It  says: 

"If  the  lot  of  cranks  and  professional  reforrtiers,. 
led  by  an  alien  fanatic,  can  pass  a  law  prohibiting 
newspapers  from  publishing  liquor  advertisements, 
they  can,  with  the  same  sort  of  logic,  coerce  and 
intimidate  the  law  makers  into  passing  a  law  pro- 
hibiting the  publication  of  tobacco  advertising." 


SOBRIETY  FROM  WITHIN. 

"'\^  E  want  all  classes  of  men  t©  be  sober;   sober 
VV     lives    are    the    best    lives,    but    that    sense    of 
sobriety  must  come  from  within." — Pittsburg  Labor 
World. 

121 


Information  Bureau 

THE  Publicity  Department  of  the 
National  Wholesale  Liquor  Dealers 
Association  of  America  conducts  an 
Information  Bureau  for  the  purpose  of 
supplying  facts,  statistics  and  arguments 
against  Prohibition  in  whatever  way  Pro- 
hibition may  appear. 

All  questions  which  may  arise  in 
YOUR  mind  in  regard  to  the  Pros  and 
Cons  of  Prohibition  can  be  answered  if 
you  will  drop  a  line  to  the  above  depart- 
ment. 

Specialists  are  employed  to  take  care  of 
these  requests  for  information. 

Authors  and  debaters  who  have  in  mind 
proposed  discussions  on  the  Pros  and 
Cons  of  the  "Liquor  Question"  are  urged 
to  make  use  of  the  special  library  on  this 
subject  available  at  the  ofBces  of  the 
above  organization. 

Literature  dealing  with  all  phases  of 
Prohibition  can  be  secured  free  of  charge 
upon  application.  Requests  for  special 
information  will  be  given  prompt  atten- 
tion. 

Address  all  communications  to  "PUB- 
LICITY DEPARTMENT,"  No.  301 
United  Bank  Building,  Cincinnati.  Ohio. 


INDEX. 

A  PAGE 

Abbott,  Rev.  Lytnan,  on  Jesus  and  Prohibition 69 

Abraham   Lincoln's  Temperance   Views 32-39 

Adams,  John  Quincy,  on  Prohibition 119 

Alabama — Free    Schools    Endangered 96 

Alabama,  Prohibition  In 86 

Alcohol,   a   War  Factor 75 

Alcohol    in    Patent    Medicines 14-15 

A   Minister   on    Prohibition 87 

"American  Issue"    Sued 94 

Anti-Saloon  League  Afraid  of  Real  Prohibition 26-27 

Anti-Saloon  League  Convention 5 

Anti-Saloon   League  Inquisition 97 

Anti-Saloon   League's   National   Lobby 70 

A   Prohibition   Tombstone 119 

Arizona,   Prohibition  In 106 

Arkansas,   Prohibition  In 86 

Army    Canteen    107 

"A   Scab    Encouraging  Institution" 55 

Average  Cost  of  Drink  to  American  Family  Is  Low 101 

B 

Bailey,  Warren  Worth,  on  Prohibition 08 

Bakers    and    Butchers 45 

Barchfield,  Representative  Andrew  J.,  of  Pennsylvania 60 

Billy  Sunday  and  Prohibition 18-21 

Bishop  Williams,  Chas.   D.,  on  the   Saloon 76 

Bishop  Spalding  on  Prohibition 69 

Blackie,  John  Stuart 104 

Blackwood,  Robert,  on  Liquor  and  Crime 64 

Bootlegging   in   "Dry"    States 105 

Bright's  Disease  in  Maine 100 

Brown,  L.  Ames,  on  Anti-Saloon  League  Lobby 70 

Brown,  L.  Ames,   on   Prohibition  and  Constitution 82 

Bryan,  C.  M.,  on  Crime  and  Prohibition 76 

Bryan   Refuted    ; 83 

Building  and   Loan   Associations 59 

c 

Call  Workers   Murderers 45 

Canfield,  Dr.  H.  A.,  on  Prohibition 46-47 

Capital  Invested  in  Liquor  Industry 88 

Capital   Involved   in  Liquor   Industry 72 

Cardinal  Gibbons  on   Prohibition 44 

Cardinal    Manning's    View 31 

Causes   of   Accidents 78 

Chattanooga,    Crime   In 89 

Chicago  Tribune  on  Prohibition 67 

Church  Members — U.    S.   Census 58 

Church   Membership   and    Prohibition 50 

City  Hall   Bootleggers'   Headquarters 81 

Clogs  Wheels  of  Progress 117 

Colorado    and    Prohibition 45 

Colorado,  Prohibition  In 0.5-103 

Compensation     84 

Compensation,    Saloon   Man   Reimbursed 112 

Confiscation  vs.    Compensation 29-30-31 

Consumption  of  Liquor 6-114 


Consumption  of  Liquor  Increases 92-112 

Cost  of  Drink • 101 

Crime 60 

Crime   and    Liquor 64 

Crime  and  Prohibition 7G-120 

Crime  Increases   in   "Dry"   Kansas lU 

D 

Darrow,   Clarence,  on  Prohibition 80 

Day  of  the  Bootlegger,  The 113 

Disregards  Spirit   of   Constitution S2 

Divorces    5J> 

Divorces   and    Prohibition 49 

Donahoe,  Rev.  P.  J.,  on  Prohibition 119 

Don't    lis 

Drinking  Nations  Lead  and  Have  Led  the  World 61 

Drugs   and   Prohibition Ill 

Drunkenness  at  Anti-Saloon  League  Convention 5 

Drunkenness    in    Dcs    Moines 10.> 

Drunkenness   in    "Dry"    Maine 105 

"Dry"    Laws  Cause   Bootlegging 105 

Dry   "Leaders"   Bad  Americans 67 

"Dry"    States,    Poor    RJations 101 

"Dry"  States  Return  to  License  and  Regulation 4 

Duluth,  Minn.,  and  Prohibition Ill 

E 

Eminent   Divines    on    Prohibition 69 

Europe's   Drink   Reform 1*2 

Exposition   Visitors    Very   Temperate 113 

F 

Face    $lS0,n00    Deficit Ill 

Farmers   and    Prohibition 73 

Farm   Products  Used   in   Making   Liquor ^% 

Farrar,    Archdeacon,   on    Prohibition 120 

Financial   Results   of    Prohibition S7 

Flannigan,  J.   D.,  on    Prohibition 41 

Former   President    Taft    on   Prohibition 9 

Freedom  of  Choice 121 

G 

George  Washington   on   Prohibit io:i 42-43 

Georgia  Gin    ^2 

Georgia,   Prohibition  In M-103 MO-irO 

Georgia,    Lynchings    71 

Gibbony,   D.   Clarence,   on    CompcTi.sation M 

Gill,   Representative   Alichael  J  ,  on   Prohibitioi 2.'» 

Goeke,  Representative  J.  Henry,  on  Prohibition 23 

Gompers   on   Prohibition I'O 

Great   Men   and  Temperance l<'i) 

H 

Ilanly  Against  T.   &  R ...  102 

Hapgood,   liutchiiis,  on   Prohibition ^') 

Harwood,   Rev.  Dr.,  on  Prohibition '"^ 

History  of   Prohibition   States 3 

Hobson   and   Your    Money '"^ 

Hobson  Demand-;  Whi.skey  for   His   Men.  tO 

Hobson    Resolution   2J 

Hobson's   "2.000   a    D  »y" a< 

Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell,  on  Prohibition 115 


I 

Illiteracy   ^^ 

Illogic    of    Prohibition 10-^ 

Industrial    Accidents    '^^ 

Industries   Affected   b-y   Prohibition 12 

Injustice  of  National   Prohibition  Amendment 54 

Insanity  and  Prohibition 49-r>9 

Insanity   Increases  in   Kansas 81 

Intemperance   and    Prohibition 9 

Internal   Revenue    "i  3 

Iowa,    Prohibition    In I'^'S 

Iowa  Taxes  Raised  by  Prohibition Ill 

"Issue"   Pays  Damages 94: 

J 

Jamaica  Ginger   '^7 

Jefferson,   Thomas,   on   Coercion 119 

fick"   or   Jamaica  Ginger 77 

ustice    Always" 11 S 

Juvenile  Delinquency  and   Prohibition 50 


;]; 


K 

Kansas,    Crime    In 114 

Kansas,   Insanity   Increases 81 

Kansas   vs.    The    License   States    (Comparison) 49-51 

Kansas,   Prohibition   In 103 

Kinney,  Rev.  Henry  C,  on  Crime  and  Liquor 69 

Koren,  John,  on  Kuropean   Liquor  Legislation 102 

Koren,  John,  on  Prohibition , 53 

L 

Labor  Accepted   by   Prohibition 73 

Labor  and  Prohibition 25-55-91-100 

Labor   Editors   Against   Prohibition 109 

Labor    Opposes    Prohibition 66 

Labor    (Statistics)     57 

License,  Regulation  and  Control. .    12 

Limits   American    Liberty 120 

Lincoln  on  Prohibition 32  39 

Liquor   Business   and  Taxes 108 

Liquor   and   Crime 64 

Liquor  and   Longevity 82 

Liquor  at  Washington  Feast 13 

Liquor    Consumption    6 

Liquor  Consumption  Increases 92-112 

Longevity  and  Liquor 82 

Lynching   in   Georgia 71 

M 

Madison,  James,  on  Prohibition 118 

Madden,  Representative  Martin  B.,  on  Prohibition 89 

Magnitude    of    Liquor    Industry 7 

Maine,   Bright's  Disease  In 100 

Maine,    Drunkenness  In 105 

Maine,    Prohibition    In 103 

Martial  Law  in  "Dry"  Town 109 

McConnell,  Rev.  Dr.  S.  D.,  on  Prohibition  and  Temperance..  69 

Means   Employment  and   Low   Wages 91 

Methodist   Book  Concern 55 

Militia  in  "Wet"  and  "Dry"  States 85 

Mince    Pies    Prohibited 110 

Mississippi,    Prohibition    In 107 

Monahan,   Michael,   on    Prohibition 120 

More  Policemen  Required  in   "Dry"   Cities 76 


Moore.  Representative  J.  Hampton,  of  Pennsylvania,  on  Pro- 
hibition      105 

Miinsterberg,    Huaro,   on    Prohibition 90 

Murder  and  Prohibition 51-110 

N 

National   Prohibition    a   Farce 117 

National    Prohibition,    Hobson    Resolution 22 

Need   of  Defense 90 

Nelson,   Senator,  on  Prohibition 11 

New   Orleans  Labor   Record   on    Prohibition 6S 

O 

One   Boy  That   Prohibition   Did   Not   Save 40-47 

One  in  Twenty  Arrested 117 

P 

Parker,  Representative  Richard  Wayne,  of  New  Jersey 70 

Patent  Medicine  in   "Dry"  Territory 1  » 

Patterson,  Malcolm   R.,  on  National   Prohibition '.  t 

Paupers   58 

Pauperism    and    Prohibition 40 

Perils  of  Prohibition 103 

Policewoman    on    Prohibition 9S 

Political   Parties   and    Prohibition 66 

Preparedness    and    Prohibition S."> 

Princeton  University  Turns   Down    Billy   Sunday lS-21 

Prisoners 60 

Prohibition  Affects  Numerous  Industries 12 

Prohibition  and  Labor 4.") 

Prohibition  and  Polygamy 11 

Prohibition   and    the   Farmer 22 

Prohibition   Catechism    16-17 

Prohibition    Fndangers    Free    Schools 96 

"Prohibition    Hypocrisy"    lOf) 

Prohibition    in    1S55 9:1 

Prohibition  in  Georgia 32  lOti 

Prohibition  in  Kansas 41 

Prohibition   in    Russia 24'2."> 

Prohibition  Makes   Criminals 107 

Prohibition  Movement  in  the  United  States 10 

Prohibition    Raises    Taxes Ill 

Prohibition  Rejected  on   Popular  Vote 4 

Prohibition,    Results   of 41 

Prohibition    States    8 

Prohibition  of  Tobacco  Advertising 121 

Prohibition  Without  Compensation  Is  Robbery 2S 

Prohibition  Woultl  Cost   from   Three  to  Five  Billion   Dollars..  72 

Prohibition    Wrong,    Says    Darrow 80 

Prohibitionist's    Intemperance    44 

Puritanism  and  Prohibition 80 

Q 

Question   for   the   Individual 120 

R 

Rejected  by   All   Parties '■'> 

Resiiit    the   Muzzle H'* 

Revenue   from    Liquor   Industry 58 

Revenue  from   "Wet"  and  "Dry"  States 101 

Kicc.  .las.  C,..  on   Prohibition   in   South 84 

Robert   Blackwood  on   Liquor  and  Crime 64 

"Rum,"   a    Mere    Vulgarism 116 

Russia   is    Not    "Dry" -'* 


s 

Saloonist   Is   Compensated 112 

"Save   the   Boy" 6> 

Savings   Accounts — U.    S.    Census 57 

Savings    Accounts   and    Prohibition 51 

Says  Vice  Followed  "Sunday" 108 

Seattle,   Bootlegging  In 81 

Sobriety  from   Within 131 

South    Dakota    Anti-Saloon    League 26-27 

South    Staggering  Under  "Dry"    Laws 86 

Special   Liquor   Measures 113 

States   Rejecting   Prohibition 4 

Sunday   and   Vice lOS 

Sunday   Sore   at   Detroit   Folks 93 

Supreme  Court  Decision  in  Warehouse  Receipts  Case 95 


Taft  on  Prohibition 74 

Taxes  and  Liquor  Business 108 

Ten  Million  Mouths  to  Feed 41 

The    Consummation 116 

The  Farmer  and  Prohibition 83 

The   Fifth    and  Fourteenth    Amendments 69 

The    "Poor   Man's   Club" 76 

Tobacco   Advertising    Prohibition 121 

Tobacco  Growers  See  Danger  in.  Prohibition 99 

Tobacco  Opposed  by  Anti-Saloon  Leaguer 97 

Topeka,   Kansas,  Arrests  in 117 

U 
Underwood,  Representative   Oscar  W.,   on   Prohibition ...  .104-116 

Urban  States  Are  "Wet" 92 

V 

Vance,  Lee  J.,  on  Compensation 69 

Vermont,  Why  It  Voted  "Wet" 71 

Wages   Paid  to   Liquor  Workers 88 

Wanted  Anti-Saloon  League  Member 112 

War  and  Alcohol '5 

Washer,  Benjamin  Sellig,  on  Prohibition 117 

Washington  and  Prohibition J^'"^'' 

Washington,   Prohibition   In S7-l()^{ 

Wasson,  Dr.  R.  W.,  on  Prohibition 87 

Watterson  on  Prohibition 110 

Webb-Kenyon    Law    23 

West,  Andrew  F.,  on  Billy  Sunday 18-21 

West  Virginia  and  Prohibition 23 

West   Virginia,   Crime  in 120 

West  Virginia  Liquor  Cases 104 

West  Virginia,   Sistersville  Chamber   of  Commerce 119 

Who  Foots   "Dry"  Bills 68 

Who  Will  Make  Up  This  Deficit  ? --JS 

Why  Liquor  Men  Fight 9iJ 

Why  Vermont  Voted  "Wet" *  1 

"Wine  of   Cardui"   Suit 4 

Woman's   Experience   in   Oklahoma 114 

W.  C,  T.  U.  for  Censorship Ill 

Would  Censor  Newspapers Ill 


i 
Do  You  Kno^\^ 


That  the  production  and  distribution  of  alcohol 
beverages  give  employment  directly  to 
1,100,000  persons? 

That  if  those  indirectly  affected  are  included 
the  number  employed  would  reach  1,600,000, 
representing  a  population  of  8,000.000? 

That  the  trades  affected  are  not  only  the  dis- 
tillery and  brewery  workers,  but  countless 
other  allied  industries,  such  as  bottle  makers, 
carpenters,  coopers,  cork  dealers,  fixture 
manufacturers,  lithographers,  printers,   etc.? 

That  the  liquor  industry  employes  people  at 
wages  superior  to  all  but  a  few  industries  in 
the  country? 

That  those  employed  by  the  liquor  industry 
would,  under  prohibition,  be  compelled  to 
hunt  for  other  lines  of  work  with  the  ultim- 
ate recult  that  the  standard  of  living  for  all 
working  men  must  become  lower? 

The  wage  is  a  commodity;  subject  to  the  law 
of  supply  and  demand? 

That  prohibition  would  strike  the  blow  that 
would  affect  the  jobs  of  1,600,000  workers 
and  jeopardize  the  livelihood  of  all  those  de- 
pendent upon  them? 


Think  It  Over! 

I 


